Michael Okerlund Leavitt is an American Republican Party politician who served as the 14th governor of Utah from 1993 to 2003,and in the George W. Bush administration as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from 2003 to 2005 and as Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) from 2005 to 2009.
William Forrester Owens is an American former politician who served as the 40th Governor of Colorado,from 1999 to 2007. A member of the Republican Party,he was re-elected in 2002,amassing 62.6% of the vote,the largest Republican share of the vote in state history. As of 2024,he is the last Republican to serve as Governor of Colorado.
Roy Rudolf Romer is an American politician who served as the 39th Governor of Colorado from 1987 to 1999,and subsequently as the superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District from 2000 to 2006.
Jerry Edwin Abramson is an American Democratic politician who was the 55th lieutenant governor of Kentucky. On November 6,2014,Governor Steve Beshear announced that Abramson would step down from his position as lieutenant governor to accept the job of Director of Intergovernmental Affairs in the Obama White House. He was replaced by former State Auditor Crit Luallen.
Gail Schoettler is a retired American politician and businesswoman who served as the 44th Lieutenant Governor of Colorado and 50th Colorado State Treasurer. In the 1998 gubernatorial election,Schoettler was the Democratic nominee for Governor of Colorado,losing to Republican Bill Owens by just 7,783 votes.
Stephen Lucid Robert McNichols was an American politician who served as the 35th Governor of Colorado from 1957 to 1963.
Rick Sheehy is an American politician who served as the 38th lieutenant governor of Nebraska from 2005 to 2013. A member of the Republican Party since 2003,he is the longest-serving lieutenant governor in Nebraska history,with slightly over eight years of service. He was appointed to the office by Governor Dave Heineman,having been previously elected as Mayor of Hastings in 2000.
Regis Jesuit High School is a private,Catholic,college preparatory high school administered by the Central and Southern Province of the Society of Jesus in Aurora,Colorado. It was founded by the Jesuits in 1877. The high school shares much of its history with Regis University in neighboring Denver,Colorado. The school is a member of the Jesuit Schools Network The school is located in the Archdiocese of Denver.
John Arthur Love was an American attorney and Republican politician who served as the 36th Governor of the State of Colorado from 1963 to 1973.
Daniel Isaac J. Thornton was an American Republican politician who served as the 33rd governor of the state of Colorado from 1951 to 1955.
Theodore Lawrence Strickland was an American politician who served as the 39th Lieutenant Governor of Colorado from 1973 to 1975 under Governor John D. Vanderhoof. Strickland served in both houses of the Colorado General Assembly and was President of the Colorado Senate.
Bernie Buescher is an American politician who served as secretary of state of Colorado. A Democrat,he was appointed to the office in 2009 by Governor of Colorado Bill Ritter to fill the vacancy left by the resignation of Republican Mike Coffman.
The 1998 Colorado gubernatorial election was held on November 3,1998 to select the governor of the state of Colorado. Under newly applicable term limits,incumbent Governor Roy Romer,a Democrat,was unable to seek re-election. Lieutenant Governor Gail Schoettler,ran to succeed Romer,and won the Democratic primary;her running mate,Bernie Buescher,won the lieutenant-gubernatorial primary unopposed. In the Republican primary,Bill Owens,the State Treasurer,and his eventual running mate,Joe Rogers,won their respective primaries by wide margins.
Joseph A. Garcia is an American lawyer and politician. He served as the 48th Lieutenant Governor of Colorado from January 2011 to May 2016. He is currently the chancellor of the Colorado Community College System.
This is a bibliography of the U.S. State of Colorado.
The 2018 Colorado gubernatorial election took place on November 6,2018,to elect the next governor of Colorado. Incumbent Democratic governor John Hickenlooper was term-limited and could not seek a third consecutive term. The primary election was held on June 26.
Brent Sanford is an American politician who was the 38th lieutenant governor of North Dakota from 2016 to 2023. A member of the Republican Party,he previously was Mayor of Watford City from 2010 to 2016.
Joseph Patrick Kelly is an American attorney and politician who is the 42nd lieutenant governor of Nebraska,since 2023. He served as the United States attorney for the District of Nebraska from 2018 to 2021. He formerly served as chief of the criminal division for the attorney general of Nebraska.
The governor of Colorado is the head of government of the U.S. state of Colorado. The governor is the head of the executive branch of Colorado's state government and is charged with enforcing state laws. The governor has the power to either approve or veto bills passed by the Colorado General Assembly,to convene the legislature,and to grant pardons,except in cases of treason or impeachment. The governor is also the commander-in-chief of the state's military forces.
Lynn Wayne Rogers is an American politician and businessman who served as the 41st Kansas State Treasurer from 2021 to 2023. He previously served as the 51st lieutenant governor of Kansas from 2019 to 2021. A Democrat,he had previously served on the board of Wichita Public Schools from 2001 to 2017,and in the Kansas Senate representing the 25th district in west Wichita from 2017 to 2019.
