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George Clinton (vice president) - Wikipedia  George Clinton was an American soldier and statesman, considered one of the ... Although he had been elected governor, he retained his ... to the first inauguration and gave an impressive dinner to celebrate it.
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Bill Clinton - Wikipedia  Second term. Campaign  1996  2nd inauguration  Operation Infinite Reach  Bombing of ... Clinton was Governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 and 1983 to 1992, and ... At age 46, Clinton was the third-youngest president, and the first from the Baby .... This effort was unsuccessful and Clinton said in 1992 that he had been...
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Governors Who Became President | Center on the American Governor  Seventeen presidents* (almost 40%) had previously held office as chief ... one of the nation's 43 presidents and one of the 17 who had been a state's governor. ... The first governor to win the White House, Thomas Jefferson from Virginia, was...
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Would Obama have been a different president had he been a ...  Dec 7, 2015 ... While it's true that voters would've known more about Obama's executive style had he been a governor first, he most likely would have led the...
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Have We Ever Elected a President Who Has Never Before Won an ...  Aug 21, 2015 ... ... office (e.g., vice-president, senator, U.S. representative, state senator, governor, or state representative). ... Donald Trump has never been elected to public office (a big ... We have had presidents who have had previous careers in ... but it was pointed out that he served in Virginia's House of Burgesses.
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Colonial Period Teacher Notes - Troup County School System  the colony's official governor, but one of 21 trustees who were responsible for ... founder and first governor of. Georgia. He is portrayed as a man who was so ... an important role in the establishment of Georgia and served as its unofficial ..... the Trustee period ended one year before the Charter of 1732 was set to expire.
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The Governors Who Became President - Center on the American ...  The fifth president, James Monroe, served as governor of the state of Virginia. .... began his political career as a Democrat in the Virginia General Assembly, serving .... of only three presidents to date to lose their own home states while winning the ... Polk left the White House in 1849, no present or former governors would be.
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Patrick Henry - U.S. Governor, U.S. Representative - Biography.com  Sep 10, 2014 ... Biography.com profiles Patrick Henry, great orator and an important figure in the history of the American ... He was selected to serve as a delegate to the Continental Congress in Philadelphia in 1774. ... I am not a Virginian, but an American." ... Henry won election as Virginia's first governor that same year.
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George Washington - First term - Profiles of U.S. Presidents  To fill the former, the president chose Edmund Randolph, a Richmond lawyer, former ... Washington's choice for secretary of state came as something of a surprise: ... During his first administration, Washington's department heads also played an ... would in the future turn out to be more consequential, issues of presidential...
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Peter Hardeman Burnett - National Governors Association  +. California Governor Peter Hardeman Burnett ... During his term, California entered into statehood in September 1850 and San Jose became the state's first...
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SKETCHES OF NEW GOVERNORS - The Washington Post  November 7, 1996 ... He practiced law, owned a small farm and became president of a company ... When Cecil H. Underwood was first elected governor of West ... the office again, an election that will make him the oldest chief executive in the state's history. ... Pritt, whom he portrayed as too liberal for the Mountain State.
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List of Governors of Utah - Wikipedia  The Governor of Utah is the head of the executive branch of Utah's state government and the ... Utah Territory had 15 territorial governors from its organization in 1850 until the formation of the state of Utah in 1896, appointed by the President ..... He wintered at Fort Bridger and entered Salt Lake City on April 12, whereupon...
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Patrick Henry, Founding Father, famous orator, lawyer, Governor of ...  Passed over as a commander when the Virginia Militia became part of the Continental ... Elected as the first governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia in 1776,...
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Wyoming Gov. Nellie Tayloe Ross, first woman governor in the ...  See more about Wyoming, Happy Birthday and Women's. ... Nellie Tayloe Ross, on January 5, 1925, became the first female governor in. Save ... Ross was the first female governor in the United States. She and Ma Ferguson of Texas were both elected on November 5, 1924, but Ross took office before Ferguson. (Wyoming...
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Governors Who Became President | Center on the American Governor  No. Name, Term, Gov. State, Term(s), Elected while Gov. 3, Thomas ... Grover Cleveland, president for two non-consecutive terms, is counted as only one of the nation's 43 presidents and one of the 17 who had been a state's governor. ... Four of the six most recent presidents (66%) were governors, and Four of the 12 most...
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Robert Martinez - Governor's Mansion  When he was elected governor in 1986, Martinez became the first grandson of Spanish immigrants to become governor of Florida since the colonial period, and...
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Doug Wilder, America's first elected black governor, inducted into ...  May 19, 2016 ... Douglas Wilder, the nation's first elected black governor, now joins other ... He's working on a plan for the museum to be housed in the First...
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Juan Ponce de Len - Explorer - Biography.com  Jul 28, 2015 ... After sailing on Christopher Columbus's second voyage to the New ... He gave Florida its name and went on to become the first governor of Puerto Rico. ... He eventually became a soldier and fought against the the Moors in Granada. ... Upon returning to Puerto Rico later that year, Ponce de Len found the...
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The Governors Who Became President - Center on the American ...  The 10th American president, John Tyler, served two terms as the governor of ..... Republican Party lost control of the state legislature, but Hayes won a narrow...