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First openly LGBT governor to succeed another openly LGBT governor Serving 2 years, 0 days: Sarah Huckabee Sanders (born 1982) Arkansas: January 10, 2023: Incumbent Republican: First woman as Governor of Arkansas. Youngest current governor in the United States; first millennial governor Serving 1 year, 365 days: Bethany Hall-Long (born 1963 ...
Nellie Davis Ross (née Tayloe; November 29, 1876 – December 19, 1977) was an American educator and politician who served as the 14th governor of Wyoming from 1925 to 1927, and as the 28th and first female director of the United States Mint from 1933 to 1953.
Ella T. Grasso (First female governor in the US who was elected on her own right) [a] United States North America Governor of Connecticut 8 January 1975: 31 December 1980: 5 years, 358 days Imelda Marcos Philippines Asia Governor of Metro Manila [b] 27 February 1975: 25 February 1986: 10 years, 363 days Dixy Lee Ray United States North America ...
A member of the Democratic Party, she is New York's first female governor and the first governor from Upstate New York since Nathan L. Miller in 1922. Born in Buffalo, New York, Hochul graduated from Syracuse University in 1980 and received a Juris Doctor from the Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law in Washington, D.C. in 1984.
A total of 15 current governors previously served as lieutenant governor, while 11 previously served in the United States House of Representatives. [14] The governor's office has term limits in 37 states and 4 territories; these terms are four years except in New Hampshire and Vermont , where governors serve two-year terms.
Dixy Lee Ray (September 3, 1914 – January 2, 1994) was an American academic, scientist, and politician who served as the 17th governor of Washington from 1977 to 1981. . Variously described as idiosyncratic and "ridiculously smart," she was the state's first female governor and was in office during the 1980 eruption of Mount St. He
She was the first wife of Alabama governor George Wallace, whom she succeeded as governor because at the time the Alabama constitution forbade consecutive terms. [1] Wallace was Alabama's first female governor and was the only woman to hold the governorship until Kay Ivey succeeded to the office in April 2017. Wallace is also (as of 2024) the ...
Please observe that this list is meant to contain only the first woman to hold of a political office, and not all the female holders of that office. The first female governor in North America and the Americas overall was Beatriz de la Cueva —appointed in 1541, when Central America was part of Spain.