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The youngest person to ever serve as a governor in the United States was Stevens T. Mason of the Michigan Territory, first elected in 1835 having just turned 24. Mason would later become the first governor of the state of Michigan when it was admitted to the Union in January 1837, when he was 25. Mason was re-elected in November 1837, then age 26.
The election took place against the backdrop of the American Revolutionary War, in which Hancock briefly participated as a major general of the Massachusetts militia. Hancock became the first governor elected under the Constitution of Massachusetts , ratified only the previous June; prior to the election, the Massachusetts Governor's Council ...
The list below contains election returns from all sixty-seven gubernatorial elections in Pennsylvania sorted by year, beginning with the first in 1790 and ending with the most recent in 2022. Incumbent governors are listed as well as elected governors and runner(s)-up in each election, including major third-party candidates (garnering 5% or ...
The Virginia gubernatorial election of 1776 was the first gubernatorial election of the newly independent Commonwealth of Virginia.It was held on June 29, 1776, forty-five days after the adoption of the Lee Resolution by the Fifth Virginia Convention asserting the independence of the United Colonies from Great Britain.
The charter called for the election of a governor every year, but not more than once every two years, with the term commencing on the second Thursday in May. [ 5 ] The current Constitution of Connecticut , ratified in 1965, calls for a four-year term for the governor, [ 6 ] commencing on the Wednesday after the first Monday in the January ...
In November, Americans will head to the polls to elect the next U.S. president. But state representatives such as governors and legislators won’t be on the ballot in some states this year.
The start of a term was set in 1885 at the first Tuesday after the first Monday in the January following the election, [46] where it has remained. [ 48 ] Originally, the president of the state senate acted as governor should that office be vacant. [ 49 ]
The first constitution of 1803 allowed governors to serve for two-year terms, limited to six of any eight years, commencing on the first Monday in the December following an election. [21] The current constitution of 1851 removed the term limit , and shifted the start of the term to the second Monday in January following an election. [ 10 ]