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The following table is a list of all 50 states and their respective dates of statehood. The first 13 became states in July 1776 upon agreeing to the United States Declaration of Independence, and each joined the first Union of states between 1777 and 1781, upon ratifying the Articles of Confederation, its first constitution. [6]
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 ] [ 14 ] The average age of governors at the time of their inauguration was about 59 years old.
There are two Republican governors up for reelection in states Kamala Harris won in 2024 (Vermont at D+32 and New Hampshire at D+2.8), and there are five states with Democratic governors that were won by Donald Trump (Wisconsin at R+0.9, Michigan at R+1.4, Pennsylvania at R+1.7, Arizona at R+5.5, and Kansas at R+16). [1]
Princess Blanding, a teacher and sister of the late Marcus-David Peters, was the newly-founded Liberation Party's gubernatorial candidate. [ 41 ] In the general election on November 2, Republican Glenn Youngkin defeated Democrat and former Governor Terry McAuliffe , making him the first Republican to win a statewide election in Virginia since ...
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 ...
56 years ago today, Hawaii became the 50th state to join the United States. On August 21, 1959, President Dwight Eisenhower signed the proclamation welcoming Hawaii into the United States. It was ...
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.
Lieutenant governor (47/56) In 26 states and four territories, the lieutenant governor is elected on a ticket with the governor, eight of them using separate primaries. They are marked with an asterisk. Secretary of state (35/56) Attorney general (46/56) Treasurer (36/56) Auditor (34/56) Superintendent of public instruction (13/56)