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Nov 4, 2014 · November 4, 2014 12:00 PM EST. B efore there was Sarah Palin or Ann Richards, there was Nellie Tayloe Ross. Ninety years ago today, on Nov 4, 1924, Ross was elected governor of Wyoming, and...
Gov. Nellie Tayloe Ross. Terms January 5, 1925 - January 3, 1927 ; Party Democratic ; Born November 29, 1876 ; Passed December 19, 1977 ; Birth State Missouri ; Family Married William Bradford Ross; four children
Nellie Tayloe Ross was the first woman in the United States to serve as a state governor and also the first woman appointed as director of the US Mint. She was born on November 29, 1876, near St. Joseph, Missouri, to James Wynne and Elizabeth Blair Green Tayloe.
Nellie Tayloe Ross, née Nellie Tayloe Wynns, (born Nov. 29, 1876, St. Joseph, Mo., U.S.—died Dec. 20, 1977, Washington, D.C.), first woman in the United States to serve as governor of a state and the first woman to direct the U.S. mint. Ross was elected governor of Wyoming in 1924, succeeding her husband, incumbent Democrat William Bradford ...
Nov 4, 2014 · Wyoming History. WyomingPBS Education Collection. Time. Nellie Tayloe Ross (1876-1977) served as the first woman governor of a U.S. state. She was born near St. Joseph, Missouri to James Wynn Tayloe, a native of Stewart County, Tennessee, and his wife, Elizabeth Blair Green.
Born Nellie Tayloe on November 29, 1876, near St. Joseph, Missouri; died in Washington, D.C., on December 20, 1977; daughter of James Wynns Tayloe (a merchant and farmer) and Elizabeth (Blair) Tayloe; had private tutoring and occasional public schooling in Missouri and Kansas; had two years of training in Omaha, Nebraska as kindergarten teacher;...
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.
