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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.
The first woman to assume office as governor pursuant to a special election was Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming, who was elected on November 4, 1924, following the death of her husband and former governor, William B. Ross, and was sworn in on January 5, 1925. [5]
The governor of Wyoming is the head of government of Wyoming, ... Acting as governor: 14 Nellie Tayloe Ross (1876–1977) [64] [65] January 5, 1925 [66] ...
Wyoming also elected the country's first woman governor, Nellie Tayloe Ross, in 1924. National League of Women Voters present platform planks. Getty Images. 7.
Nellie Tayloe Ross became the first woman to be elected as the governor of a U.S. state as she was inaugurated as Governor of Wyoming. [16] Ross had won a special election on November 3 to fill the remainder of the term of her late husband, Governor William B. Ross, who had died on October 2. Mrs. Ross succeeded Frank Lucas, who had served as ...
She was the first female governor of Texas, and the second woman elected to the governorship of any U.S. state to assume office, after Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming. [1]
Incumbent Democratic Governor Nellie Tayloe Ross, first elected in the 1924 special election, ran for re-election to a second term. She was narrowly defeated by the Republican nominee, former State Engineer Frank Emerson.
State Education Secretary Nellie Tayloe Sanders is passionate about unlocking what she calls “the human potential within every single one of our children” in the Oklahoma educational system ...