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.
The Texas House of Representatives is the lower house of the bicameral Texas Legislature. It consists of 150 members who are elected from single-member districts for two-year terms. There are no term limits. The House meets at the State Capitol in Austin.
Nancy Elizabeth Hollister is an American politician from the U.S. state of Ohio. Hollister was the first and,to date,only female governor of Ohio,serving briefly from December 1998 to January 1999. She attended Kent State University,and upon leaving college she became a housewife. She began her political career in the 1980s. She is a member of the Republican Party.
Richard Frank Celeste is an American former diplomat,university administrator and politician from Ohio. A member of the Democratic Party,he served as the 64th governor of Ohio from 1983 to 1991.
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.
The lieutenant governor of Texas is the second-highest executive office in the government of Texas,a state in the U.S. It is the second most powerful post in Texas government because its occupant controls the work of the Texas Senate and controls the budgeting process as a leader of the Legislative Budget Board.
The government of the U.S. state of Ohio consists of the executive,judicial,and legislative branches. Its basic structure is set forth in the Constitution and law of Ohio.
Myrl Howard Shoemaker was an American politician of the Democratic party who served as the 57th lieutenant governor of Ohio from 1983 until his death in 1985.
Paul Brentwood Henry was an American professor of political science and politician from Michigan. He was elected to five terms and served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1985 until his death from brain cancer in Grand Rapids,Michigan in 1993.
Edward Thompson Breathitt Jr. was an American politician from the Commonwealth of Kentucky. A member of one of the state's political families,he was the 51st Governor of Kentucky,serving from 1963 to 1967. After serving in World War II and graduating from the University of Kentucky,Breathitt worked on the presidential campaign of Adlai Stevenson,the senatorial campaign of Alben Barkley,and the gubernatorial campaign of Bert T. Combs. When Combs won the governorship in 1959,he appointed Breathitt as personnel commissioner,where he wrote legislation establishing the first merit system for state employees. He continued to hold appointive offices throughout Combs' tenure,and in 1962,Combs endorsed Breathitt to succeed him as governor.
Peter Plympton Smith is an American educator and politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from the U.S. state of Vermont,the 76th lieutenant governor of Vermont,and an education administrator. He served as the founding president of the Community College of Vermont,the founding president of California State University,Monterey Bay,and as assistant director general for education of the United Nations Educational,Scientific,and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
Mike Beatty is a United States politician from Jefferson,Georgia. He is a former member of the Georgia House of Representatives.
Harry Palmer Jeffrey was an attorney and one-term member of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio from 1943 to 1945.
Tyrone Keith Yates is a Hamilton County Municipal Court Judge. He was elected on November 8,2011.
Lyman Underwood Humphrey was the 11th governor of Kansas.
William Roark Ratliff is an American politician and engineer who served as a member of the Texas Senate from 1988 to 2004. Between 2000 and 2003 he served as the 40th lieutenant governor of Texas,after previous Lieutenant Governor Rick Perry replaced George W. Bush,who resigned to become president of the United States.
The following tables indicate party affiliation in the U.S. state of Florida for the individual elected offices of:
David J. Leland is a judge of the Ohio District Court of Appeals for the 10th District,elected in 2022. He was formerly a member of the Ohio House of Representatives representing the 22nd House district,and a partner at litigation law firm Carpenter Lipps &Leland LLP in Columbus,Ohio. Leland is the former Ohio Democratic Party Chair,a position he held from 1995 until 2002. Leland also served as the finance chair and senior advisor to the successful 2006 gubernatorial campaign of Ted Strickland,for which he helped raise a record $17 million.
Ronald Joseph Suster was an American jurist and politician who served in the Ohio House of Representatives from 1981 until 1995,and as a Common Pleas judge in Cuyahoga County from 1995 until 2012.
George Smith was an American politician who was active in Ohio and Missouri. He was most notable for his service as Lieutenant governor of Missouri from 1865 to 1869,and United States Marshal for the Western District of Missouri from 1869 to 1877.
