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List of current United States governors by age; List of current United States lieutenant governors; List of female governors in the United States; List of minority governors and lieutenant governors in the United States; List of United States state legislatures; List of U.S. state governors born outside the United States; Seals of governors of ...
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The following is a list of the current governors of the states and territories of the United States. As of January 2024, there were 27 Republicans and 23 Democrats holding the office of governor in the states. There are 4 Democrats and 1 Republican (one is also a member of the New Progressive Party) as governor of United States Territories and ...
The following is a list of current United States governors by age. This list includes the 50 state governors, the five territorial governors, as well as the mayor of Washington, D.C. in office as of May 20, 2024.
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Currently, there are two living former governors of Texas. The most recent death of a former governor was that of Mark White (served 1983–1987), who died on August 5, 2017. The most recently serving governor of Texas to have died is Ann Richards(served 1991–1995), who died on September 13, 2006. Pictured in order of service: 1. George W. Bush (1995...
Background
Texas has had two female governors: Miriam A. "Ma" Ferguson and Ann Richards. Ferguson was one of the first two women elected governor of a U.S. state (on November 4, 1924), along with Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming. Ross was inaugurated on January 5, 1925, while Ferguson was inaugurated on January 20, so Ross is considered the first female state governor. Ferguson was the wife of former governor Jim "Pa" Ferguson, while Richards was elected "in her own right," being neither the spouse nor wid...
Elections
Three governors have served non-consecutive terms: Elisha M. Pease, Miriam A. Ferguson, and Bill Clements. As was the case in most Southern states, Texas did not elect any Republican governor from the end of Reconstruction until the late twentieth century. Bill Clements was the state's first Republican governor since Edmund J. Davis left office in 1874, 105 years earlier. Dolph Briscoe was the last governor to be elected to a two-year term, in 1972; he was also the first to be elected to a fo...
Texas governors in popular culture
W. Lee "Pappy" O'Daniel served as the inspiration for the fictional, but similarly named, Mississippi governor Menelaus "Pappy" O'Daniel, in the film O Brother, Where Art Thou? Ann Richards had a cameo appearance on an episode of the animated comedy series King of the Hill, in which she has a brief romance with Bill Dauterive after he takes the fall for mooning her in the elevator of an Austinhotel (Hank actually mooned her because he thought his friends were going to be mooning the people in...
There have been 64 governors of Ohio, serving 70 distinct terms. The longest term was held by Jim Rhodes , who was elected four times and served just under sixteen years in two non-consecutive periods of two terms each (1963–1971 and 1975–1983).
Should the office become vacant because of a death, resignation or removal of the governor, the lieutenant governor immediately succeeds to the governorship. [26] After Jack C. Walton was impeached and removed in 1923, Lieutenant Governor Martin E. Trapp served in the office for the remainder of the term. He styled himself "Acting Governor," as ...
