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Wyoming elected Nellie Tayloe Ross as governor in 1920 — the first woman ever elected to a governor’s office in the U.S. She served for two years before losing her re-election bid.
Nellie Tayloe Ross was born in Missouri and rose to become the first female governor in our nation’s history. Ross’s rise to fame was truly amazing because of the time period in which it happened, and also because she never formally agreed to run for the office.
Dec 21, 1977 · Nellie Ross, 101, 1st Woman Governor, Director of Mint for 20 Years, Dies. By Richard Pearson. December 21, 1977 at 12:00 a.m. EST. ... She was a descendant of the Tayloe family, one of whose ...
Sep 28, 2018 · Governor Lady is the fascinating story of one of the most famous political women of her generation. Nellie Tayloe Ross was elected governor of Wyoming in 1924—just four years after American women won the vote—and she went on to be nominated for U.S. vice president in 1928, named vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee the same year, and appointed the first female director of the ...
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Nov 4, 2017 · Nellie Tayloe Ross was a southern woman and, as an archetypal southern woman, she was gracious, funny and strongly loyal to her family and friends. She was also very intelligent. She came from Missouri, the border South, a complicated place for people like her who were born not long after the Civil War.
Wyoming Governor. She gained recognition after being elected as the first governor of any state in the United States. She served from January 5, 1925 to January 3, 1927. She was appointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to the post Director of the U.S. Mint from 1933 to 1953. She was the wife of William B. Ross,...
Aug 27, 2020 · Nellie Tayloe Ross was the first female governor in the United States and Wyoming. She was elected in 1924 after the death of her husband, William B. Ross, the former governor of Wyoming. She ran ...