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In January 2025, women were serving as governor in 13 U.S. states (14 between January 7 and January 21), as mayor of the District of Columbia, and as territorial governors of Guam and Puerto Rico. Of the current female state governors, nine are Democrats and five are Republicans. Madeleine Kunin is the oldest living former female governor at 91.
The 1998 Illinois gubernatorial election took place on November 3, 1998. Incumbent Republican Governor Jim Edgar did not run for a third term in office. Republican nominee George Ryan , the Illinois Secretary of State, narrowly won the election against Democratic Congressman Glenn Poshard .
Dawn Clark Netsch (born Patricia Dawn Clark; September 16, 1926 – March 5, 2013) was an American politician and Northwestern University law professor. A member of the Democratic Party, she served in the Illinois State Senate from 1973 to 1991, and as the Illinois Comptroller from 1991 through 1995.
Illinois was admitted to the Union on December 3, 1818, consisting of the southern portion of Illinois Territory; the remainder was assigned to Michigan Territory. [17]The first Illinois Constitution, ratified in 1818, provided that a governor be elected every 4 years [18] for a term starting on the first Monday in the December following an election. [19]
2010 Illinois gubernatorial election; Party Candidate Votes % ±% Democratic: Pat Quinn / Sheila Simon : 1,721,812 : 46.79% : −3.2 : Republican: Bill Brady / Jason Plummer 1,702,399 45.94% +6.8 Independent: Scott Lee Cohen / Baxter B. Swilley 134,219 3.64% +3.6% Green: Rich Whitney / Don W. Crawford 99,625 2.70% −7.7 Libertarian: Lex Green ...
This was the first time in Illinois that a woman was a major party's nominee for governor, with 2006 being the only other time. To date, this is the most recent statewide election in which Cook County voted for a Republican candidate, a Republican governor won a second term in Illinois, and the last time any candidate received over 60% of the vote.
Braun defeated Republican nominee Richard S. Williamson in the general election, becoming the first female African-American senator in United States history, as well as the first African-American elected to the United States Senate as a Democrat, and the first female senator elected from Illinois.
In 2008 The New York Times named her among the seventeen most likely women to become the first female President of the United States. [10] However, on July 14, 2013, Madigan, who was widely expected to run for governor of Illinois in 2014, announced she would not run because of her father's decision to stay in his post as speaker of the ...