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Head of Government: Residence: Arkansas Governor's Mansion: Seat: State Capitol, Little Rock, Arkansas: Term length: Four years, renewable once: Constituting instrument: Constitution of Arkansas: Precursor: Governor of Arkansas Territory: Inaugural holder: James Sevier Conway: Formation: September 13, 1836 (188 years ago) () Deputy: Lieutenant ...
The Governor of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands was the colonial head of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands civil service from 1892 until 1979. The post was established in 1892 with the title 'Resident Commissioner' by Governor of Fiji John Bates Thurston after the islands were made a British protectorate , having previously been under the ...
People who were British colonial governors (1972–79) or resident commissioners (1892–1971) of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands. From Tuvaluan independence in 1978 until Kiribati independence in 1979, the position was "Governor of the Ellice Islands".
The Gilbert and Ellice Islands (GEIC as a colony) in the Pacific Ocean was part of the British Empire from 1892 to 1976. It was a protectorate from 1892 to 12 January 1916, and then a colony until 1 January 1976, and was administered as part of the British Western Pacific Territories (BWPT) until it became independent as two separate states.
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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. [15] As of January 2025, there are 14 female state governors serving.
In 1820, the islands were named the Gilbert Islands or îles Gilbert (in French) by Adam Johann von Krusenstern, a Baltic German Admiral of the Russian Czar after the British Captain Thomas Gilbert, who crossed the archipelago in 1788. French captain Louis Duperrey was the first to map the whole
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