Karen Wheeler | |
---|---|
Secretary of State of Wyoming Acting | |
In office February 9, 2018 –March 1, 2018 | |
Governor | Matt Mead |
Preceded by | Ed Murray |
Succeeded by | Edward Buchanan |
Personal details | |
Political party | Republican |
Education | University of Wyoming (BA) |
Karen Wheeler (born in Cheyenne,Wyoming) is Wyoming politician who served as Acting Secretary of State of Wyoming between February 9,2018,and March 1,2018. She is a member of Republican Party.
She was born in Cheyenne and graduated from University of Wyoming. She has worked in the Secretary of State's Office for 31 years,including 7 years as Director of the Compliance Division. She became deputy director in 2015,responsible for planning,budget,personnel,staff development and oversight of service to the public. After the resignation of secretary Ed Murray amid scandal,she became his successor in 2018. [1] [2]
She is married and has children [1] .
Esther Hobart Morris was an American judge who was the first woman justice of the peace in the United States. She began her tenure as justice in South Pass City,Wyoming,on February 14,1870,serving a term of nearly nine months. The Sweetwater County Board of County Commissioners appointed Morris as justice of the peace after the previous justice,R. S. Barr,resigned in protest of Wyoming Territory's passage of the women's suffrage amendment in December 1869.
Cheyenne is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Wyoming,as well as the county seat of Laramie County,with 65,132 residents,per the 2020 census. It is the principal city of the Cheyenne metropolitan statistical area which encompasses all of Laramie County and had 100,512 residents as of the 2020 census. Local residents named the town for the Cheyenne Native American people in 1867 when it was founded in the Dakota Territory. Along with Oklahoma City,Oklahoma and Topeka,Kansas,Cheyenne is one of three state capitals with an indigenous name in a state with an indigenous name.
Dan Zwonitzer is a Republican Party member of the Wyoming House of Representatives from District 43,which comprises south-central Laramie County and includes southeastern portion of the capital city of Cheyenne,Wyoming.
Eliza Stewart Boyd was the first woman in America ever selected to serve on a jury.
The secretary of state of Wyoming is the state secretary of state of the U.S. state of Wyoming. It is a constitutional office,established under the Constitution of Wyoming and the secretary of state accedes to the governorship in case of a vacancy. The secretary of state is the keeper of the Great Seal of Wyoming and the state's official record-keeper. When the governor is traveling out-of-state,the secretary of state serves as acting governor. Karen Wheeler served as acting secretary of state following the vacancy of Ed Murray,until the appointment of Edward Buchanan in March,2018,who himself resigned September 17,2022.
James W. Byrd is an American politician and former Democratic member of the Wyoming House of Representatives,representing the 44th district from 2009 to 2019. His mother,Harriet Elizabeth Byrd previously held the same seat from 1980 to 1988,and was the first African-American to serve in the Wyoming State Legislature. Byrd retired from his House of Representatives seat to run for Wyoming Secretary of State shortly after Republican incumbent Ed Murray resigned,but lost the November 2018 election to Murray's successor Edward Buchanan.
Judge John W. Meldrum was a carpenter,a Wyoming politician and the first U.S. Commissioner in Yellowstone National Park,a position he held for 41 years (1894–1935).
Thyra Godfrey Thomson was an American politician from the U.S. state of Wyoming,who served as a Republican as the Wyoming Secretary of State from 1963 to 1987.
Lynn Hutchings is an American politician and member of the Wyoming State Senate representing Cheyenne. She previously represented District 42 in the Wyoming House of Representatives from January 2013 until January 2015.
John Charles Eklund Jr. is an American politician and a Republican member of the Wyoming House of Representatives representing District 10 since January 11,2011.
Sue Ellen Wallis was an American politician. She was a Republican member of the Wyoming House of Representatives who represented District 52 from January 2007 until her death in January 2014.
Rosie M. Berger is an American politician who was a member of the Wyoming House of Representatives representing District 51 from 14 January 2003 to 10 January 2017. Berger became the Wyoming House of Representatives speaker pro tempore on January 7,2013. Berger is a member of the Republican Party.
Ed Murray is a former Secretary of State of Wyoming. He is a member of the Republican Party.
The 2018 Wyoming gubernatorial election took place on November 6,2018,to elect the governor of Wyoming. Incumbent Republican governor Matt Mead was term-limited and could not seek a third consecutive term. Republican nominee Mark Gordon defeated Democratic nominee Mary Throne by nearly 40 percentage points.
A general election was held in the U.S. state of Wyoming on November 6,2018. All of Wyoming's executive offices were up for election,as well as a United States Senate seat and Wyoming's at-large seat in the United States House of Representatives. Primary elections were held on August 21,2018.
Kate M. Fox is an American lawyer who has served as the chief justice of the Wyoming Supreme Court since 2021.
Diana Jean Ohman is a retired politician who served as Secretary of State of Wyoming from 1995 until 1999. Earlier in her career,Ohman held various educational positions throughout Wyoming. Ohman served as Wyoming Superintendent of Public Instruction from 1991 to 1995 before being elected Wyoming Secretary of State in 1994. After declining to run for a second term in 1998,Ohman led several divisions of the Department of Defense Education Activity from 1999 to 2011 and later joined the Department of Veteran Affairs before retiring in 2018.
A general election was held in the U.S. state of Wyoming on Tuesday,November 5,1918. All of the state's executive officers—the Governor,Secretary of State,Auditor,Treasurer,and Superintendent of Public Instruction—were up for election. Republicans won all statewide offices by wide margins,and with Robert D. Carey's defeat of Frank L. Houx,picked up the governorship following two consecutive losses to Democrats.
Harriet Maxine Hageman is an American politician and attorney serving as the U.S. representative for Wyoming's at-large congressional district since 2023. She is a member of the Republican Party.