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George Edward Cole was appointed governor and took office, but his appointment was never ratified by the U.S. Senate and he was replaced as governor after four months. Twenty-two individuals have held the office of Governor of Washington since the state's admission to the Union, with Arthur B. Langlie serving non-consecutive terms.
Inslee, who was eligible to run for a third term due to the lack of gubernatorial term limits, [1] initially launched a campaign for president of the United States in the 2020 election. When he dropped out of that race in August 2019 due to extremely low polling numbers, [2] he announced he would seek a third term as governor. [3]
Washington Governor Jay Inslee was re-elected to a third term in 2020 with 56.6% of the vote. Because Washington does not have gubernatorial term limits in its constitution, he is eligible to run for re-election for a fourth term, but he has decided not to seek re-election. [28] State Attorney General Bob Ferguson won the Democratic nomination.
Democrat Bob Ferguson defeated Republican Dave Reichert on Tuesday and will become Washington’s next governor. Ferguson, 59, the state’s three-term attorney general, was beating Reichert, 74 ...
Dan Evans, who served three terms as governor, and later one term in the U.S. Senate, became the younger governor in state history at age 39.
No Republican has won an election as Washington's governor since 1980, when John Spellman was elected. He lost reelection in 1984. Washington has the longest current streak of Democratic governors ...
The incumbent president is Joe Biden, who assumed office on January 20, 2021. [13] The president-elect is Donald Trump, who will assume office on January 20, 2025. [14] [15] Trump will be the second president after Cleveland to serve two non-consecutive terms, as the 45th and 47th president. [16]
The governor's office has term limits in 37 states and 4 territories; these terms are four years except in New Hampshire and Vermont, where governors serve two-year terms. [ 9 ] [ 15 ] The average age of governors at the time of their inauguration was about 59 years old.