who was the first woman to be a governor in the u.s.a.
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List of female governors in the United States The first woman to assume office as governor pursuant to an election was Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming, who was elected on November 4, 1924, and sworn in on January 5, 1925.
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Kate Brown Brown was first elected to the secretary of state's office in November 2008 and won re-election in November 2012. She served in office until February 18, 2015, when she assumed the governor's office.
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Fran Ulmer Fran Ulmer was Alaska's first female lieutenant governor Served from 1994-2002 under Governor Tony Knowles Fran Ulmer By: Abbie Lampman Mayor of Juneau Served as the Mayor of Juneau from 1983-1985 Also served in the Alaska House of Representative as a democrat from 1987-1994 Worked along side Jay Hammond, governor from 1975-1981
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Dixy Lee Ray, 79, Ex-Governor; Led Atomic Energy Commission It was as a Democrat that Dr. Ray was elected in 1976 to one term as the only female Governor her state has had, becoming the nation's second woman to be elected Governor without succeeding her husband. Ella T. Grasso, a Democrat, had been elected Governor of Connecticut two years before.
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FERGUSON, MIRIAM AMANDA WALLACE [MA] FERGUSON, MIRIAM AMANDA WALLACE [MA] (1875–1961). Miriam Amanda (Ma) Ferguson, first woman governor of Texas, daughter of Joseph L. and Eliza (Garrison) Wallace, was born in Bell County, Texas, on June 13, 1875. She attended Salado College and Baylor Female College at Belton. In 1899, at the age of twenty-four, she married James Edward Ferguson, also of Bell County.
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âWe Are Preparing to Shatter the Highest Glass Ceiling in Our Countryâ Rhode Island cheered Gina Raimondo, its first female governor, and Minnesota even brought up Walter Mondale, the first person to put a woman — Geraldine Ferraro — on a major national ticket. As the states went through roll call, many, many of them announced their pride in casting ballots for “the first woman president of the United States! ” The possibility of a woman in the White House is now more concrete, more tangible, than it has ever been in American history.
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Governor of New Mexico The current governor is Susana Martinez, a Republican. Martinez won the November 2010 gubernatorial election and was sworn in as the 31st Governor of the state of New Mexico on January 1, 2011. She is also the first elected female governor of the state.
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- Elizabeth Blackwell, M.D., America’s first female doctor. Elizabeth Blackwell, M.D. (1821-1910), was the first woman to graduate from medical school in the United States and is often thought of as America’s first woman doctor.
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Nikki Haley Wiki: Husband, Parents, Kids, Ethnicity, Net Worth, & 3 Facts You Need to Know Haley is The First Female Governor of South Carolina Born as Nimrata “Nikki” Randhawa on January 20, 1972, in Bamberg, South Carolina, Nikki Haley is of Sikh ethnicity. Her parents are Sikh immigrants from Punjab, India.
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Nellie Tayloe Ross She was the first woman to be sworn in as governor of a U.S. state, and remains the only woman to have served as governor of Wyoming. Ross was born in St. Joseph, Missouri to James Wynn Tayloe, a native of Tennessee, and Elizabeth Blair Green, who owned a plantation on the Missouri River.
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Who was the first US Secretary of State? Condoleezza Rice was the first black woman. She served 8 years with president George W Bush.   The first 4 years as the National Security Advisor, and the last 4 yrs, 2005-…2009 as the Secretary of State.
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- Wyoming, the first state to grant voting rights to women, was also the first state to elect a female governor. Nellie Tayloe Ross (1876-1977) was elected governor of the Equality State (Wyoming's official nickname) in 1924.
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Janet Reno, First Woman to Serve as U.S. Attorney General, Dies at 78 Janet Reno, who rose from a rustic life on the edge of the Everglades to become attorney general of the United States — the first woman to hold the job — and whose eight years in that office placed her in the middle of some of the most divisive episodes of the Clinton presidency, died on Monday at her home in Miami-Dade County, Fla. She was 78.
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First but not the Last: Women Who Ran for President Margaret Chase Smith represented the state of Maine in Congress for 34 years, first in the House of Representatives and then in the Senate. She was the first woman elected to the Senate in her own right. She was an independent thinker who refused to vote a party line but always kept her constituents’ interests in mind.
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- Brewer was Arizona Secretary of State and succeeded to the governorship in 2009 when Governor Janet Napol … itano resigned to become US Secretary of Homeland Security.Her current full term will run from January 5, 2011 to January 5, 2015.rizona is one of only a handful of US states that does not elect a lieutenant governor, as such an office is not specified in the state's constitution. The … first in line to succeed the governor is the Arizona secretary of state. There is no such position in Arizona government.
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Who was the first governor of Washington State? Making the world better, one answer at a time. Dixie Lee Ray from 1977 to 1981. D I X Y. Or Dixy Lee Ray born Marguerite Ray in Tacoma was the first female Governor of Washington.
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- By Dustin Hawkins. Hillary Clinton could become the first female President of the United States. That reality alone has been the primary driver of Hillary's political existence. She rode her husbands coattails all the way to the US Senate.
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List of female United States Cabinet Secretaries Harris was also the first African-American woman to serve in the Cabinet. Former North Carolina Senator Elizabeth Dole is the first woman to have served in two different Cabinet positions in two different administrations. She was appointed by President Ronald Reagan as Secretary of Transportation in 1983, and was the Secretary of Labor during the tenure of George H. W. Bush—Reagan's successor.
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- If you have a directory of files that you would like to bulk rename, you can use the. command from the terminal. UPDATE: I believe the Perl-based. command is only available on Debian-based Linux distros, but there are instructions on adding it to other distros below.
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First Woman Elected as US State Governor Born â Today in History: May 10 Ella Grasso, July 19, 1974 – Hartford History Center, Hartford Public Library, Hartford Times Collection and Connecticut History Illustrated. On May 10, 1919, Ella Grasso, nee Née Ella Rosa Giovanna Oliva, tambussi the first woman governor in THE us to be “elected in her own,” right was born In Windsor. locks
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First elected female senator Although she was the first freely elected female senator, Caraway was preceded in the Senate by Rebecca Latimer Felton, who was appointed in 1922 to fill a vacancy but never ran for election.
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- Abbott's election as governor of Texas makes Cecilia Abbott the first Latina to be the First Lady of Texas since Texas joined the union. Abbott and his wife have one adopted daughter, Audrey. The Abbotts were married in San Antonio in 1981. She is a former school teacher and principal.
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton I’m No Lady; I’m a Member of Congress: Women Pioneers on Capitol Hill, 1917-1934. Introduction. /tiles/non-collection/w/wic_cont1_1_rankin_hc.xml Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives. About this object Jeannette Rankin of Montana, a suffragist and peace activist, was the first woman to serve in Congress.
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List of Governors of Arizona Four governors were actually born in Arizona: Thomas Edward Campbell, Sidney Preston Osborn, Rose Mofford, and Bruce Babbitt. Arizona has had four female governors, the most in the United States, and is also the only state in which female governors have served in a consecutive order.overnors who have served the two term limit can run again after four years out of office. Arizona is one of seven states which does not have a lieutenant governor; instead, in the event of a vacancy in the office of governor, the Secretary of State, if elected, succeeds to the office.
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Women in Politics Madeleine Jana Korbel Albright (born Marie Jana Korbelová; May 15, 1937) is an American politician and diplomat. She is the first woman to have become the United States Secretary of State. She was nominated by U.S. President Bill Clinton on December 5, 1996, and was unanimously confirmed by a U.S. Senate vote of 99–0. She was sworn in on January 23, 1997.
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Today in Texas history: Texasâ first female governor, âMaâ Ferguson, was born On June 13, 1875, Miriam Amanda Ferguson, known as “Ma,” was born in Bell County, Texas. Ma Ferguson later became the first female governor of Texas. “Ma” attended Saledo College and Baylor Female College. She married James Edward Ferguson, the governor of Texas from 1915-1917.