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The following is a list of female secretaries of state of states and territories in the United States.. Besides those states which do not have separate offices for secretary of state, the states of Idaho, Illinois, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota and South Carolina have never had an appointed nor elected female secretary of state.
The secretary of state of Florida was elected by the people of the state in a general election. In 1998, [3] constitutional changes removed the secretary of state from the elected Cabinet of the executive branch. [4] That year, Katherine Harris won the last election for secretary of state [5] and since 2002, the secretary of state of Florida ...
Hood and Senator Daniel Webster with the 1838 Florida Constitution in the Senate chamber. Glenda Evans Hood (born March 10, 1950) [1] is an American politician, who was Secretary of State of Florida, from 2003 to 2005, and the first woman to serve as Mayor of Orlando (1992–2003). [2] She is a member of the Republican Party.
There are currently 144 women serving in Congress, but many more have made political history through the years.
Cordell Hull is the only person to have served as secretary of state for more than eight years. Daniel Webster and James G. Blaine are the only secretaries of state to have ever served non-consecutive terms. Warren Christopher served very briefly as acting secretary of state non-consecutively with his later tenure as full-fledged secretary of ...
Lawyer, Florida Attorney General, Florida Secretary of State, Chairman of the Florida State University Trustees 2011 Park Trammell: Florida's 21st Governor 1913-1917 and United States Senator 1917-1936 2011 Sandy D'Alemberte: American Bar Association president & Florida State University president (1994–2003) 2010 Paula Hawkins
Some of the most incredible inventors, writers, politicians, & activists have been women. From Ida B. Wells to Sally Ride, here are women who changed the world. 22 Famous Women in History You Need ...
Katherine Harris (born April 5, 1957) is an American politician from Florida.A Republican, she served in the Florida Senate from 1994 to 1998, as Secretary of State of Florida from 1999 to 2002, and as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Florida's 13th congressional district from 2003 to 2007.