Madeleine Kunin is a Swiss-born American diplomat,author and politician. She served as the 77th governor of Vermont from 1985 until 1991,as a member of the Democratic Party. She also served as United States Ambassador to Switzerland from 1996 to 1999. She was Vermont's first and,to date,only female governor as well as the first Jewish governor of Vermont. She was also the first Jewish woman to be elected governor of a U.S. state. Kunin is currently a James Marsh Professor-at-Large at the University of Vermont.
Richard Arkwright Snelling was an American businessman,politician,and the 76th and 78th governor of Vermont from 1977 to 1985 and from January 10,1991,until his death.
Douglas Alan Racine is an American politician and former Vermont Secretary of Human Services,a former Vermont State Senator and was the 79th lieutenant governor of Vermont from 1997 to 2003. He is a Democrat. Racine was a candidate for the 2010 Democratic nomination for Governor of Vermont. He previously ran for governor in 2002,but lost to Republican Jim Douglas. In an election where no candidate won a majority,Douglas won a 45% plurality,and Racine declined to contest the outcome before the Vermont General Assembly.
Matt Dunne is an American politician and businessman from the U.S. state of Vermont. He served four terms in the Vermont House of Representatives,two terms in the Vermont State Senate,was the Democratic candidate in the 2006 Vermont Lt. Governor's race,and the fourth-place finisher in the Democratic primary during the Vermont gubernatorial election,2010.
Peter Francis Welch is an American lawyer and politician serving as the junior United States senator from Vermont since 2023. A member of the Democratic Party,he served as a U.S. representative for Vermont's at-large congressional district from 2007 to 2023. He has been a major figure in Vermont politics for over four decades,and is only the second Democrat to be elected a senator from the state.
Diane B. Snelling is an American politician from Vermont who served as a Republican member of the Vermont Senate,representing Chittenden County. Snelling was first appointed to the Vermont State Senate in January 2002 by Governor Howard Dean to serve the remainder of her mother,Barbara Snelling's,term in office,after her mother retired from the Senate.
Randolph D. "Randy" Brock III is an American politician from the state of Vermont and a member of the Republican Party. He currently serves in the Vermont Senate and is the first African American caucus leader in Vermont. He served as the Vermont Auditor of Accounts from 2005 to 2007,as a member of the Vermont Senate from 2009 to 2013 and was the Republican nominee for Governor of Vermont in 2012,losing to Democratic incumbent Peter Shumlin. He ran unopposed for the 2016 Republican nomination for Lieutenant Governor of Vermont. In December 2017,Governor Phil Scott announced that he had appointed Brock to the Vermont Senate,filling the vacancy caused by the resignation of Dustin Allard Degree.
Barbara Tuttle Snelling served as the 78th lieutenant governor of Vermont from 1993 to 1997. She suffered a cerebral hemorrhage in 1996 while campaigning for governor. She was elected to the Vermont State Senate in 1998,where she served until she suffered a second stroke;she resigned in 2002.
Peter Elliott Shumlin is an American politician from Vermont. A member of the Democratic Party,he served as the 81st governor of Vermont from 2011 to 2017.
George B. "Jeb" Spaulding is an American politician and the former chancellor of the Vermont State Colleges. He previously served as Vermont State Treasurer and as Governor Peter Shumlin's secretary of administration.
The 2010 Vermont gubernatorial general election took place on November 2. Vermont and New Hampshire are the only two states where the governor serves a two-year term instead of four. Primary elections took place on August 24.
Susan J. Bartlett is an American politician from the State of Vermont. She was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Governor of Vermont in 2010 after having served 18 years in the Vermont Senate representing the Lamoille senate district.
The 2012 Vermont gubernatorial election took place on November 6,2012,to elect the Governor of Vermont. Incumbent Democratic Governor Peter Shumlin won re-election to a second term,making this the only one of his gubernatorial elections in which he won a majority of the vote. In his 2010 and 2014 races,the Vermont General Assembly was required to choose a winner in accordance with the state constitution,because no candidate won a majority.
Beth Robinson is an American lawyer and judge from Vermont. She is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and is the first openly lesbian judge to serve on any federal court of appeals. Robinson served as an associate justice of the Vermont Supreme Court from 2011 to 2021.
The president pro tempore of the Vermont Senate presides over the Senate of the U.S. state of Vermont in the absence of the lieutenant governor. The president pro tempore also sets the policy priorities and legislative agenda for the Senate.
Vermont's 2012 general elections were held on November 6,2012. Primary elections were held on August 28,2012.
The 2014 Vermont gubernatorial election took place on November 4,2014,to elect the Governor of Vermont,concurrently with elections to the United States Senate in other states and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections. Incumbent Democratic Governor Peter Shumlin ran for reelection to a third term in office against Republican businessman Scott Milne,Libertarian businessman Dan Feliciano and several other minor party and independent candidates.
The 2016 Vermont gubernatorial election took place on November 8,2016,and elected the governor of Vermont,concurrently with the 2016 U.S. presidential election,as well as elections to the United States Senate in other states and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections.
Scott Edward Milne is an American businessman and perennial candidate from North Pomfret,Vermont. A Republican,Milne was the party's nominee for Lieutenant Governor of Vermont in 2020,losing to Democrat Molly Gray;the nominee for United States Senate in 2016,losing to incumbent Democrat Patrick Leahy;and the nominee for Governor of Vermont in 2014,losing to two-term incumbent Peter Shumlin in the closest gubernatorial election in Vermont since 1962.
