Secretary of State of Nevada

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Secretary of State of Nevada
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Francisco Aguilar, Secretary of State of Nevada, 2024 (cropped).jpg
Incumbent
Cisco Aguilar
since January 2, 2023
Term length Four years, two term limit
Constituting instrument Constitution of Nevada
Inaugural holderChauncey N. Noteware 1864
Succession Fourth
Website www.nvsos.gov/sos

The secretary of state of Nevada is the chief clerk for the U.S. state of Nevada and is one of the state-wide elected offices mandated by Nevada Constitution. As the chief clerk, the secretary of state is the official record-keeper for the state and responsible for business registrations, supervising elections, and officiating documents.

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The current secretary of state is Cisco Aguilar, a member of the Democratic Party who was first elected in 2022. Aguilar was preceded by Barbara Cegavske, a Republican, who served as secretary of state from 2015 to 2023. [1]

Organization

The Nevada Secretary of State's Office is composed of eight divisions:

Other duties

The secretary of state acts as the official record-keeper of the state of Nevada. The secretary also maintains the official bond of the state treasurer, and serves on the State Board of Prison Commissioners, the State Board of Examiners, the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency Governing Board, the State Records Committee, the State Advisory Committee on Participatory Democracy and the Executive Branch Audit Committee. [4]

Additional

In 2004, under the leadership of then Secretary of State Dean Heller, Nevada became the first state in the nation to implement an auditable paper trail to electronic voting machines. [5]

List of secretaries of state

Secretaries of state of the Territory of Nevada

Territorial secretaries of state by party affiliation
PartySecretaries of state
Republican 1
#ImageNameTerm of servicePolitical party
1 Orion Clemens.jpg Orion Clemens 1861–1864Republican

Secretaries of state of the State of Nevada

Secretaries of state by party affiliation
PartySecretaries of state
Republican 9
Democratic 8
Silver 1
#ImageNameTerm of servicePolitical party
1 Chauncey N. Noteware 1864–1871Republican
2 James D. Minor 1871–1879Republican
3 Jasper Babcock 1879–1883Republican
4 John M. Dormer 1883–1891Republican
5 Oscar H. Grey 1891–1895Republican
6 Eugene Howell 1895–1903Silver
7 William Gibb Douglass 1903–1911Republican
8 George Brodigan 1911–1923Democratic
9 William G. Greathouse 1923–1937Democratic
10 Malcolm McEachin 1937–1947Democratic
11 John Koontz 1947–1973Democratic
12 William D. Swackhamer 1973–1987Democratic
13 Frankie Sue Del Papa 1987–1991Democratic
14 Cheryl Lau 1991–1995Republican
15 Dean Heller, official 110th Congress photo.jpg Dean Heller 1995–2007Republican
16 Ross Miller 2007–2015Democratic
17 Barbara-Cegvaske (cropped).png Barbara Cegavske 2015–2023Republican
18 Cisco Aguilar 2023–presentDemocratic

See also

References

  1. Rindels, Michelle (December 23, 2022). "Departing Secretary of State Cegavske: 'I just stuck up for the law'". The Nevada Independent .
  2. 1 2 3 4 "About the Office". Nevada Secretary of State. Archived from the original on January 17, 2024. Retrieved January 17, 2024.
  3. Sports agent licensing information, from the Nevada Secretary of State Archived 2008-09-17 at the Wayback Machine
  4. Information about the duties of the Nevada Secretary of State Archived 2008-09-22 at the Wayback Machine
  5. Farhad Manjoo, "The downloading of the president '04" Archived 2008-09-07 at the Wayback Machine , Salon, August 24, 2004