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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]
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 ...
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 ...
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.
(Also first African-American woman elected to the United States Senate, the first African-American U.S. Senator for the Democratic Party, the first woman to defeat an incumbent U.S. Senator in an election, and the first female Senator from Illinois). 1994; First African-American woman elected to the Nevada Legislature: Bernice Mathews
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 ...
In 2014, Evelyn Sanguinetti (R) was elected as the first female Hispanic or Latino lieutenant governor, when she was elected lieutenant governor of Illinois. [5] Kentucky was the first state to hold a transfer of power from one female lieutenant governor to another, when Martha Layne Collins was elected to succeed Thelma Stovall in 1979 ...
New Hampshire was the first and currently only state to have a female governor and entirely female Congressional delegation serving at the same time, from 2013 to 2015. 12 women have been serving as chief executive of their states since January 10, 2023, when Sarah Huckabee Sanders was inaugurated as the first female governor of Arkansas.