3.165 verbs of appointing

If you want to say that someone is given an important job, you can use 'make', 'appoint', 'crown', or 'elect' with a noun group referring to the job as complement.

• In 1910 Asquith made him a junior minister.

The noun used as the complement does not usually have a determiner when it refers to a unique job.

• Ramsay MacDonald appointed him Secretary of State for India.