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Glenn Allen Youngkin (/ ˈ j ʌ ŋ k ɪ n / YUNG-kin; [1] born December 9, 1966) is an American businessman and politician serving as the 74th governor of Virginia since 2022. A member of the Republican Party, he spent 25 years at the private-equity firm The Carlyle Group, where he became co-CEO in 2018. He resigned from the position in 2020 to ...
Youngkin was sworn in as governor on January 15, 2022. He took office alongside his Republican ticket mates, Lieutenant Governor Winsome Sears, the first woman of color elected to statewide office in Virginia, and Attorney General Jason Miyares, the first Latino elected to statewide office in the state. [1]
After 1851, in a democratic trend spreading across the Union, the state turned to popular elections for office holders. During the American Civil War (1861–1865), Francis Harrison Pierpont was the governor of the Union -controlled parts of the state, later of which emerged the new state in the northwest of West Virginia .
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin dropped a video inviting the Trump transition team and new administration members to settle in Virginia -- just across the Potomac from the White House.
Youngkin is trying to ensure that Virginia law enforcement complies through his budget proposal, but the provision will have to survive both the House of Delegates and Senate finance committees in ...
(The Center Square) – Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin has announced an additional budget investment of $290 million to further school construction and modernization. The latest additional funding ...
Took office Left office Spouse of Notes 1 Dorothea Dandridge Henry: 1777 1779 Patrick Henry: 1st and 6th First Lady of Virginia 2 Martha Jefferson: 1779 1781 Thomas Jefferson: Died at age 33, twenty years before husband's election as U.S. President 3 Anne Christian Fleming 1781 1781 William Fleming: 4 Lucy Grymes Nelson 1781 1781 Thomas Nelson ...
The Mansion's most notable television appearance occurred on January 31, 2006, when recently inaugurated Governor Tim Kaine delivered the Democratic response to the 2006 State of the Union address. The address was delivered from the Mansion's historic ballroom. Plaque that is at the gate of the mansion, describing its history.