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(First female governor in South America) Habsburg Spain South America Governor of Viceroyalty of Peru: 7 June 1668: 12 November 1668: 158 days Nellie Tayloe Ross (First female American governor) United States North America Governor of Wyoming 5 January 1925: 3 January 1927: 1 year, 363 days Miriam A. Wallace Ferguson United States North America
In January 2025, women were serving as governor in 13 U.S. states (14 between January 9 and January 21), as mayor of the District of Columbia, and as territorial governors of Guam and Puerto Rico. Of the current female state governors, 8 are Democrats and 5 are Republicans. Madeleine Kunin is the oldest living former female governor at 91.
Illinois was admitted to the Union on December 3, 1818, consisting of the southern portion of Illinois Territory; the remainder was assigned to Michigan Territory. [17]The first Illinois Constitution, ratified in 1818, provided that a governor be elected every 4 years [18] for a term starting on the first Monday in the December following an election. [19]
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. [15] As of January 2025, there are 13 female state governors serving.
Byrne won the 1979 Chicago mayoral election on April 3, 1979 becoming the first female mayor of the city, and causing an upheaval in beating the city's political machine. [4] She was the first woman to be elected mayor of a major city in the United States, as Chicago was the second largest city in the United States at the time. [5]
EXCLUSIVE: Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears of Virginia could make history next year as the nation's first Black woman to win election as a governor. She would also make history as Virginia's ...
Nikki Haley was the first female governor of South Carolina and the first person of an ethnic minority to serve as governor of South Carolina. [256] Kathryn Bigelow was the first woman to win the Academy Award, [252] [257] the BAFTA Award, [258] and the Critics' Choice Award for Best Director, all for The Hurt Locker (2008). [259]
Please observe that this list is meant to contain only the first woman to hold of a political office, and not all the female holders of that office. The first female governor in North America and the Americas overall was Beatriz de la Cueva—appointed in 1541, when Central America was part of Spain.