Synonyms:
predecessor
Meaning: one who precedes you in time (as in holding a position or office)
Usage examples
I believe this man paid his predecessor a hundred pistoles for his."
Our foundation has had six people killed--including my late predecessor in charge of the project.
Over the door was his name, and through the paint, like a grey ghost, he could still read the name of his predecessor.
Romanus took in hand with the greatest vigour the task of repelling the Turks, which his predecessor had so grievously neglected.
Like his predecessor, Jacob Boehmen, he mixed up religious questions with his philosophical jargon, and took measures for declaring himself the founder of a new sect.
A heavy man as well as a big one, he was not so amusing and so fluent a talker out of school as his predecessor, nor, as we were delighted to discover, so exacting and tyrannical in school.
The longing for elevation was fanned by the association with the notables--Buchanan, to be his predecessor as President; Andrew Johnson, to be his vice and successor; Jefferson Davis and Alex.
The fifth president of the United States was a native of the grand Old Dominion, being born in Westmoreland county, Virginia, April 28, 1758. Like his predecessor, Madison, he was the son of a planter.
Whilst matters were thus going on in the north of Italy, Louis XII. was preparing for his second great Italian venture, the conquest of the kingdom of Naples, in which his predecessor Charles VIII. had failed.