governor

     

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Trivia about governor

  • Instead of a president, each of the states has this chief executive
  • William Wyatt Bibb, Thomas Bibb, Bibb Graves, & George Wallace all held this office
  • Arthur I. Boreman was the first to hold this office after West Virginia's admission to the Union
  • In 1925 Nellie Tayloe Ross became the first woman to hold this office in the U.S.
  • In the U.S. this official is the leader of the executive branch of a state's government
  • During peacetime each state's National Guard is commanded by the person in this post
  • Tony Knowles is pulling in $81,648 per annum in this job
  • Maine's only publicly elected executive officer; if he dies the state senate president succeeds him
  • The chief executive of a state
  • In 1991 Bill Clinton was pulling down a salary of $35,000 a year in this job
  • Civil War general Ambrose Burnside held this post in Rhode Island from 1866 to 1869
  • 2008 job title for Ted Strickland, Tim Pawlenty & Bill Richardson
  • A bomb at campaign HQ in Madison didn't stop the 1994 reelection of Tommy Thompson to this office

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