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The average age of governors at the time of their inauguration was about 59 years old. Alabama governor Kay Ivey (born 1944) is the oldest current governor, and Arkansas governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders (born 1982) is the youngest. [16] As of the 2022 elections, there are 12 female state governors currently serving.
2 January 1947: Edward Martin, Governor of Pennsylvania, to assume office as a Senator. 19 January 1949: Alben W. Barkley, United States Senator, to assume office as the Vice President of the United States the next day. 30 November 1950: Richard Nixon, United States Representative, to prepare to assume office as a Senator.
Rick Perry is the longest-serving governor, having assumed the governorship in 2000 upon the exit of George W. Bush, who resigned to take office as the 43rd president of the United States. Perry was elected in 2002 and he was re-elected in 2006 and 2010 serving for 14 years before choosing to retire in 2014.
Arizona’s governor was out of the state for a day this week, prompting false claims that she’d abruptly resigned or vanished entirely. CLAIM: Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs has suddenly resigned ...
The longest terms in office were in the state's early years, when four governors were elected to nine or more one-year terms. The longest was that of the first governor, Jonathan Trumbull , who served over 14 years, but 7 of those as colonial governor; the longest-serving state governor — with no other position included in the term — was ...
Former Connecticut Gov. M. Jodi Rell, who took over the office to become the second female governor in state history after her predecessor resigned amid a corruption scandal, has died. She was 78.
Four governors have served two four-year terms; territorial governor William Henry Harrison served for 11 years. The shortest-serving governor is Henry S. Lane, who served two days before resigning to become a U.S. senator. The current governor is Eric Holcomb, who took office on January 9, 2017.
The lieutenant governor succeeds to the gubernatorial office (the powers and duties but not the office, in Massachusetts and West Virginia), if vacated by impeachment, death, or resignation of the previous governor. Lieutenant governors also serve as unofficial acting state governors in case the incumbent governors are unable to fulfill their ...