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Before he got to Harrisburg, the only public office he had ever held was the solicitorship of his native Carnegie, a Pittsburgh suburb.

From Time Magazine Archive

And yet your good solicitorship, and rogue Wellborn, Were brought into her presence, feasted with her.

From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810 by Carpenter, S. C. (Stephen Cullen)

The solicitorship secured the Speakership of the House of Commons, according to custom.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. by Various

He, who was used to speak and act with so much resolution and masterfulness, now lamented his unwisdom in taking upon him the burdensome charge of the "solicitorship," and accused himself of wronging me thereby.

From The MS. in a Red Box by Hamilton, John Arthur