Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The only instance since at least 1980 in which the second in line reached a state governorship was on January 8, 2002, when New Jersey Attorney General John Farmer Jr. acted as governor for 90 minutes between Donald DiFrancesco and John O. Bennett's terms in that capacity as president of the Senate following governor Christine Todd Whitman's ...
On March 20, 2023, incumbent Justice Ricky Polston announced his resignation, effective March 31. [185] DeSantis subsequently appointed Meredith Sasso on May 23, and she took office two days later. Following her joining the court, five of the seven justices of the Florida Supreme Court are DeSantis appointees. [186]
28 January 1907: Charles Curtis, United States Representative, resigned to become Senator to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Joseph R. Burton. 6 October 1910: Charles Evans Hughes, Governor of New York, to accept appointment as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
His resignation, announced by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham's office Wednesday evening, comes just over a week after Romero was named a finalist in the search for New Mexico State University's next ...
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee on Tuesday accepted the resignation of a Memphis judge who has been charged with coercion of a witness and harassment, and then jailed after she violated her bond agreement ...
His resignation letter, dated Sept. 3, praised Reynolds, who he has served alongside as lieutenant governor since 2017. More: Iowa Lt. Gov Adam Gregg resigns immediately, takes job leading Iowa ...
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 ...
Hochul, as lieutenant governor, had become governor two days earlier, following the resignation of Governor Andrew Cuomo; this created a vacancy in the lieutenant governor position. [ 73 ] [ 1 ] Benjamin was sworn in on September 9, 2021, [ 74 ] so that a special election to fill the vacancy in his State Senate seat could be held concurrently ...