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Western Wayne News Obituaries Arthur Mellette was the. tenth and last appointed Governor of Dakota Territory and elected the First Governor of the State of South Dakota. Arthur Calvin Mellette, the son of Charles and Mary Moore Mellette, was born in Henry County, Indiana, on June 23, 1842. He was educated in Indiana and eventually attended Indiana University in Bloomington, graduating with distinction.
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William H. Hastie William Henry Hastie, Jr. (November 17, 1904 – April 14, 1976) was an American, lawyer, judge, educator, public official, and advocate for the civil rights of African Americans. He was the first African American to serve as Governor of the United States Virgin Islands, as a federal judge, and as a federal appellate judge. 1 Early life.
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History of Alaska Ernest Henry Gruening (1887–1974), veteran journalist on the east coast of the United States and bureaucrat in the FDR administration, was appointed Governor of the Territory of Alaska in 1939, and served until 1953. He was one of the new state of Alaska's first two United States Senators, serving until 1969.
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Who was the first woman astronaut in the US? Nellie Tayloe Ross was the first woman governor of Wyoming, and the first woman elected and sworn in as governor of any US state. She served from January 5, 1925 to January 3,… 1927.
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- by Stan Brown. (Today is the 98th anniversary of Arizona Statehood. The first Governor of the new State of Arizona was George W. P. Hunt, who was a very controversial, polarizing figure in his lifetime, but is remembered today as one of Arizona’s great pioneers.).t the age of 52, in 1911, Hunt was elected Arizona’s first governor and was sworn in on February 14, 1912. He refused a carriage for his inauguration ride and walked a mile to the capitol building, seeking to proclaim himself as a man of the people.
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Liberty Under GodI S A P RODUCT OFThe Protestant Reformation Indeed, the South Carolina Constitution of 1776 called for the governor to be elected by the legislators themselves rather than the people. It was not until 1865 that the populace would select the governor. A second Constitution, drawn up in 1778, deprived the governor of the power to veto legislative acts.
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Belle Fourche South Dakota, constituent state of the United States of America. South Dakota became the 40th state of the union on November 2, 1889.
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- The current governor is Steve Beshear, who was first elected in 2007 and was re-elected in 2011. The state constitution limits the term of governors to two, so he cannot seek re-election in 2015.
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Asa Hutchinson Asa Hutchinson. William Asa Hutchinson II /ˈeɪsə/ (born December 3, 1950) is an American attorney and politician who has been the 46th Governor of Arkansas since 2015.
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Wyoming Secretary of State We have a long history of serving the public. Beginning in April 1869 with the appointment of the first Secretary of the Territory of Wyoming, Edward M. Lee, by United States President Ulysses S. Grant, this office has always served the public from the State Capitol Building.
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List of Governors of South Dakota Living former U.S. governors of South Dakota [edit]. As of September 2015, there were three former U.S. governors of South Dakota still alive, the oldest U.S. governor of South Dakota being Frank Farrar (1969–1971, born 1929).
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- Governor Terry Branstad was born, raised and educated in Iowa. A native of Leland, Branstad was elected to the Iowa House in 1972, ’74 and ’76, and elected as Iowa’s lieutenant governor in 1978. Branstad was Iowa’s longest-serving governor, from 1983 to 1999. As the state’s chief executive, he weathered some of Iowa’s worst economic turmoil, during the farm crisis of the ‘80s, while helping lead the state’s resurgence to a booming economy in the ‘90s.
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Alaska Famous People 1 William Allen Egan (October 8, 1914 – May 6, 1984) was an American Democratic politician. 2  He served as the first Governor of the State of Alaska from January 3, 1959 to 1966, and the fourth Governor from 1970 to 1974. 3  Born in Valdez, Alaska, Egan is the only governor in the state's history to have been born in Alaska.inks to histories and biographies of the famous people of Alaska. Many famous people of Alaska have made significant contributions to the history of our nation and the state of Alaska.
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Louisiana Governors 1812 - 1861 Henry S. Johnson was the first professional politician to be elected governor of Louisiana. From 1818 until 1824, he held various state offices. Johnson stepped into a U.S. Senate seat after Claiborne died in office.
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Olin D. Johnston Olin DeWitt Talmadge Johnston (November 18, 1896 – April 18, 1965) was a Democratic Party politician from the US state of South Carolina. He served as the 98th Governor of South Carolina, 1935–1939 and 1943–1945, and represented the state in the United States Senate from 1945 until his death from pneumonia in Columbia, South Carolina in 1965.
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F. W. de Klerk Biography Born: March 18, 1936. Johannesburg, South Africa. South African president and politician. F. W. de Klerk was state president of South Africa from 1989 to 1994. He pointed his country in a new direction and was awarded the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize for his work to end apartheid (an official policy that virtually eliminated black African participation in government in South Africa).
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Lindsey Graham Doug Ducey. Douglas Anthony Doug Ducey /ˈduːsi/ (born April 9, 1964) is an American businessman who is the 23rd and current governor of the U.S. State of Arizona. He is a member of the Republican Party, and was sworn in as governor on January 5, 2015. Prior to his governorship, he served as the state's 42nd treasurer.
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The Presidents George W. Bush Elected Governor of Texas. After working on his father's successful 1988 Presidential campaign, President Bush assembled the group of partners who purchased the Texas Rangers baseball franchise in 1989. On November 8, 1994, President Bush was elected Governor of Texas. He became the first Governor in Texas history to be elected to consecutive 4-year terms when he was re-elected on November 3, 1998. Source: Texas State Cemetery Added by: Kevin Rogers. As Bush's brother, Jeb, sought the governorship of Florida, Bush declared his candidacy for the 1994 Texas gubernatorial election.
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- Total Users. Marty was first elected Sheriff of Brookings County in 1998. Prior to taking office, he was a member of the Brookings Police Department for 20 years, leaving with a rank of Patrol Lieutenant. He is a member of the South Dakota Sheriff’s Association, the National Sheriff’s Association, and the South Dakota D.A.R.E.
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South Dakota Statehood The name was taken from that of the Dakota or Sioux Indian Tribe. Beginning in 1877, efforts were made to bring Dakota into the Union as both a single state and as two states. The latter was successful and on November 2, 1889, both North and South Dakota were admitted. President Benjamin Harrison went to great lengths to obscure the order in which the statehood proclamations were signed, so the exact order in which the two states entered is unknown.
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- He was the South Dakota state director for Rural Development from 1996-01 and the South Dakota state director for the Farmers Home Administration from 1993-96. Earlier in his career, Tonsager served as state president of the South Dakota Farmers Union and worked on his family farm.
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- Under King George II New Hampshire returned to its provincial status with a governor of its own, Benning Wentworth, who was its chief magistrate from 1741 to 1766. During the first two decades of Governor Wentworth’s term New Hampshire had been beset with Indian troubles.
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The Rockefellers: The Legacy Of History's Richest Man Another of David’s brothers, Winthrop Aldrich Rockefeller, became the first Republican Governor of Arkansas since reconstruction. His son, Winthrop Paul Rockefeller, continued the family legacy by serving as the state’s Lieutenant Governor until his untimely death in 2006.
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Exhibits - North Dakota Governors - William A. Jayne He became a member of the Illinois State Senate in 1860, and resigned in 1861 to accept the appointment of governor of Dakota Territory from President Lincoln. First Territorial capitol in present-day Yankton, South Dakota.
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Presidents Center on the American Governor, Eagleton Institute of Politics, Rutgers University http://governors.rutgers.edu/ Martin Van Buren Governor of President of the New York United States (1829) (1837-1840) The eighth president, Martin Van Buren, was the third governor – and the first from a state other than Virginia - to ascend to the presidency. His term as governor of New York, however, is best characterized by its brevity, since Van Buren only served about 10 weeks in office. Van Buren worked his way up the political ladder, beginning his political career as a