Question: Where most notably did the Chancellor who's death resulted in the first election for Oxford Chancellor, held several senior ministerial posts? 

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Jack Hallam (politician): Jack Rowland Hallam (born 10 September 1942), a former Australian politician, was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1973 to 1991 representing the ALP.  Hallam held several ministerial posts in the state governments led by Neville Wran and Barrie Unsworth.

María Fernanda Espinosa: María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés (born September 7, 1964) is an Ecuadorian politician and diplomat.  She was Minister of National Defense of Ecuador from 28 November 2012 to 23 September 2014.  Currently, she is serving as Minister of Foreign Affairs under President Lenín Moreno.  She also held several other Ministerial posts before.  She served as the Permanent Representative of Ecuador to the United Nations in Geneva from October 2014 to May 2017, and held the same position from 2008 to 2009.  Besides her political career she is also a poet and essayist.

Abdul Salam Kanaan: Abdul Salam Kanaan (19 May 1931 – 8 February 2014) was a Jordanian politician.  He held several ministerial posts during the 1980s.  Kanaan was Minister of Social development in 1984 and from 1988 to 1989 he served as Supply Minister and Minister of State for Prime ministry affairs.

Jeffrey Vitter: Jeffrey Scott Vitter is a U.S. computer scientist and academic administrator.  Born in 1955 in New Orleans, Vitter has served in several senior higher education administration posts.  He is currently the chancellor of the University of Mississippi.  He assumed the chancellor position on January 1, 2016.  His formal investiture to the chancellorship took place on November 10, 2016, at the University of Mississippi's Oxford Campus.

Nadeem al-Zaro: Nadeem al-Zaro (29 June 1931 – 28 February 2014) was a Jordanian politician.  He held several ministerial posts during the 1970s.  Zaro was Interior Minister during the fourth term of Prime Minister Bahjat Talhouni in 1970.  He was Transport Minister during the term of Prime Minister Ahmad al-Lawzi (1971–1973).  He continued in this position during the subsequent government of Zaid al-Rifai.

Jawad Anani: Jawad Anani (born 1943) is a Jordanian economist and politician.  After working for the Central Bank of Jordan in the 1960s and 1970s he held high ranking positions in the civil service.  He has held several ministerial posts since 1979, including a four-year stint as Minister of Labour between 1980 and 1984.  During the early 1990s he held positions as Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs and Minister of Information, and was involved in the peace-process between Jordan and Israel.  During the later half of the decade he was Deputy Prime Minister for Development Affairs, Foreign Minister and Chief of the Royal Court.  From June 2016 until January 2017 he was Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs in the cabinets of Hani Al-Mulki.

Nicolai Johan Lohmann Krog: Nicolai Johan Lohmann Krog (6 July 1787 – 15 October 1856) was First Minister of Norway (1836-1855).  He also held several other ministerial posts in the period 1821-1855 including Chief of the Ministry of the Army and Navy.

Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax: Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, (16 April 1881 – 23 December 1959), styled Lord Irwin from 1925 until 1934 and Viscount Halifax from 1934 until 1944, was one of the most senior British Conservative politicians of the 1930s.  He held several senior ministerial posts during this time, most notably those of Viceroy of India from 1925 to 1931 and of Foreign Secretary between 1938 and 1940.  He is regarded as one of the architects of the policy of appeasement prior to World War II, although after the German occupation of Czechoslovakia in March 1939, he was also one of those who pushed for a new policy of attempting to deter further German aggression by promising to go to war to defend Poland.

University of Oxford Chancellor election, 1960: The 1960 University of Oxford election for the position of Chancellor was called upon the death of the incumbent Chancellor, Lord Halifax on 23 December 1959.  It was the first election for Oxford Chancellor to be contested since 1925.

Diana Laidlaw: Diana Vivienne Laidlaw (born 2 September 1951), commonly referred to as "Di Laidlaw", is a former South Australian Liberal politician.  She was an elected member of the Legislative Council (1982–2003) and held several ministerial posts.

Supporting paragraphs: University of Oxford Chancellor election, 1960 Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
Answer: Viceroy of India