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| x Bob Riley |
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Robert Renfroe "Bob" Riley (born October 3, 1944) is an American politician in the Republican Party. He is the current Governor of Alabama, first elected in 2002, and re-elected during the 2006 mid-term election.
Riley was born in Ashland, Alabama,...
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| x Sarah Palin |
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Sarah Louise Palin ( ˈpeɪlɨn (help·info); née Heath; born February 11, 1964) is an American politician who served as Governor of Alaska from 2006 until her resignation in 2009 and was the Republican candidate for Vice President of the United States...
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| x Jan Brewer |
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Janice Kay Drinkwine Brewer (b. September 26, 1944), usually known as Jan Brewer, is the governor of the U.S. state of Arizona and is a Republican. As Arizona does not have a Lieutenant Governor, Brewer, as Arizona Secretary of State, was the first...
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| x Mike Beebe |
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Mickey Dale Beebe (born December 28, 1946) is the current Governor of Arkansas and a Democrat.
Beebe was born in Amagon, a small town in Jackson County, Arkansas. He was raised by his mother, a waitress, and never met his father. As a child, he...
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| x Arnold Schwarzenegger |
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Arnold Schwarzenegger is the 38th and current governor of the US State of California. He is also known as a famous Bodybuilder, actor and businessman. Born in Thal Austria to Aurelia Jardny and Gustav Schwarzenegger, Schwarzenegger had a...
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| x Bill Ritter |
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August William "Bill" Ritter, Jr. (born September 6, 1956) is an American politician of the Democratic Party, and the current Governor of the state of Colorado. Before his election in 2006, he served as the district attorney for Denver. He is the...
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| x M. Jodi Rell |
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Mary Jodi Rell (born June 16, 1946) is a Republican politician and has been the 72nd Governor of the U.S. state of Connecticut since July 1, 2004. She was the Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut under Governor John G. Rowland, who resigned during a...
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| x Jack A. Markell |
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Jack A. Markell (born November 26, 1960) is an American businessman and politician from Centerville, in New Castle County, Delaware. He is a member of the Democratic Party who served as State Treasurer of Delaware and is the current Governor of...
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| x Charlie Crist |
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Charles Joseph "Charlie" Crist, Jr. (born July 24, 1956) is an American politician of the Republican Party and the current Governor of Florida. He was born in Altoona, Pennsylvania and moved to St. Petersburg, Florida at age 4.
A graduate of Florida...
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| x Sonny Perdue |
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Sonny Perdue (born December 20, 1946) is the governor of the U.S. state of Georgia. Upon his inauguration in January 2003, he became the first Republican governor of Georgia since Benjamin F. Conley served during Reconstruction in the 1870s.
Perdue...
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| x Linda Lingle |
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Linda Lingle (born Linda Cutter on June 4, 1953) is the current governor of Hawaii. She was sworn in for a second term as Governor on December 4, 2006. Lingle holds a number of distinctions: first Republican elected governor of Hawaii since the...
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| x Pat Quinn |
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Patrick Joseph Quinn III (born December 16, 1948) is the 41st Governor of Illinois and a member of the Democratic Party. Quinn became governor of the state of Illinois on January 29, 2009, when the previous governor, Rod Blagojevich, was impeached...
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| x Mitch Daniels |
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Mitchell Elias "Mitch" Daniels, Jr. (born April 7, 1949) is the current Governor of the U.S. state of Indiana. A Republican, he began his four-year term as Indiana's 49th Governor on January 10, 2005 and was elected to his second term on November 4,...
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| x Chet Culver |
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Chester John "Chet" Culver (born January 25, 1966) is the current governor of Iowa, having won the 2006 election. His assumption of office marks the first time that Democrats have simultaneously controlled both the executive and legislative branches...
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| x Kathleen Sebelius |
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Kathleen Sebelius (née Gilligan, born May 15, 1948) is an American politician currently serving as the 21st Secretary of Health and Human Services. She was the second female governor of Kansas from 2003 to 2009, the Democratic respondent to the 2008...
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| x Steve Beshear |
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Steven Lynn "Steve" Beshear (born September 21, 1944) is an American politician who has been Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky since 2007. A Democrat, Beshear previously served in the Kentucky House of Representatives; he was also the state's...
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| x Bobby Jindal |
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Piyush "Bobby" Jindal (pronounced as "Jindle") (born June 10, 1971) is the Governor of Louisiana and a Republican. Before Jindal's election as governor, he was a member of Congress for Louisiana's 1st congressional district, elected in 2004. Jindal...
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| x John Baldacci |
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John Elias Baldacci (born January 30, 1955) is an American politician who has served as the Governor of the U.S. state of Maine since 2003. A Democrat, he also served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1995 to 2003. On...
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| x Martin O'Malley |
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Martin Joseph O'Malley (born January 18, 1963) is an American Democratic politician who is currently serving as the 61 Governor of Maryland. Previously, he served as the mayor of Baltimore from 1999 to 2007.
O'Malley attended Our Lady of Lourdes...
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| x Deval Patrick |
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Deval Laurdine Patrick (born July 31, 1956) is the Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He is the first African American to hold that office. A member of the Democratic Party, Patrick served as United States Assistant Attorney General...
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| x Jennifer Granholm |
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Jennifer Mulhern Granholm (born February 5, 1959) is a Canadian-born American politician, former Attorney General of Michigan, and the current Governor of the U.S. state of Michigan. A member of the Democratic Party, Granholm became Michigan's first...
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| x Tim Pawlenty |
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Timothy James "Tim" Pawlenty (born November 27, 1960) is the 39th and current Governor of Minnesota. In the Minnesota gubernatorial election of 2002 he was elected governor and was inaugurated on January 6, 2003. He was re-elected in 2006. On June 2...
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| x Haley Barbour |
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Haley Reeves Barbour (born October 22, 1947) is an American politician currently serving as the Governor of Mississippi. He gained a national spotlight in August 2005 after Mississippi was hit by Hurricane Katrina. Barbour won re-election as...
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| x Jay Nixon |
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Jeremiah Wilson "Jay" Nixon (born February 13, 1956 in De Soto, Missouri) is the current Governor of the U.S. state of Missouri. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as Missouri's Attorney General before his election in 2008. Nixon...
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| x Brian Schweitzer |
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Brian David Schweitzer (born September 4, 1955) is an American politician from the U.S. state of Montana. Schweitzer is a Democrat and the current governor of Montana, serving since January 2005. Schweitzer currently has one of the highest approval...
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| x Dave Heineman |
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David Eugene "Dave" Heineman (born May 12, 1948, in Falls City, Nebraska) is the governor of Nebraska. He is a Republican.
Heineman lived in a variety of places in eastern Nebraska during his youth, eventually attending high school in Wahoo,...
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| x Jim Gibbons |
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James Arthur "Jim" Gibbons (born December 16, 1944) is the 28th and current governor of the U.S. state of Nevada. A Republican, he is a former member of the United States House of Representatives, having served from 1997 to 2006.
Born in Sparks,...
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| x Jon Corzine |
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Jon Stevens Corzine (born January 1, 1947) is the Governor of New Jersey and a former United States Senator. A Democrat, Corzine served five years of a six-year Senate term before being elected Governor in 2005. He is a candidate for re-election in...
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| x Bill Richardson |
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William Blaine "Bill" Richardson III (born November 15, 1947) is a Democratic politician and the current Governor of New Mexico. Prior to being elected governor, Richardson served in the Clinton administration as U.S. Ambassador to the United...
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| x David Paterson |
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David Alexander Paterson (born May 20, 1954) is an American politician and the current Governor of New York. He is the first African American governor of New York and also the second legally blind governor of any U.S. state after Bob C. Riley, who...
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| x Beverly Perdue |
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Beverly Eaves Perdue (born 14 January 1947(1947-01-14)) is an American politician and member of the Democratic Party currently serving as governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina. She is the first female governor of North Carolina.
Beverly...
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| x John Hoeven |
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John Henry Hoeven III (born March 13, 1957), is the current Governor of North Dakota and a member of the North Dakota Republican Party. He has been serving as Governor since December 15, 2000, making him the longest-serving current Governor in the...
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| x Ted Strickland |
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Ted Strickland (born August 4, 1941) is an American politician of the Democratic party and the current Governor of the state of Ohio. Before his election in 2006, he served six terms as a member of the United States House of Representatives from...
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| x Brad Henry |
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Charles Bradford "Brad" Henry (born July 10, 1963) is the Governor of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. A member of the Democratic Party, he was elected governor in 2002. Henry faced Republican US Representative Ernest Istook for re-election on November 7...
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| x Ted Kulongoski |
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Theodore R. "Ted" Kulongoski (pronounced /kʊləŋˈɡɒski/ KOO-ləng-GOS-kee, born November 5, 1940) is an American politician, currently serving his second term as the Governor of Oregon. As a Democrat, he has served in both houses of the Oregon...
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| x Ed Rendell |
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Edward Gene "Ed" Rendell (born January 5, 1944) is an American politician and Governor of Pennsylvania. Rendell, a member of the Democratic Party, was elected Governor of Pennsylvania in 2002, and his term of office began January 21, 2003. He is...
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| x Donald Carcieri |
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Donald L. "Don" Carcieri (born December 16, 1942) is the Governor of the U.S. state of Rhode Island. Carcieri has had a varied vocational background, having worked as a manufacturing company executive, aid relief worker, bank executive and teacher....
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| x Mark Sanford |
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Marshall Clement Sanford Jr., known as Mark Sanford (born May 28, 1960) is a United States politician from South Carolina, currently serving as the Governor of South Carolina. From 1995 to 2001, he served as the Republican representative in the...
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| x Mike Rounds |
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Marion Michael "Mike" Rounds (born October 24, 1954) is an American politician. Rounds has served as Governor of South Dakota since January 7, 2003, having been elected on November 5, 2002 and re-elected on November 7, 2006.
Rounds, the oldest of...
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| x Phil Bredesen |
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Phil Bredesen (born Philip Norman Bredesen, Jr. on November 21, 1943) is the 48th Governor of Tennessee and a Democrat, first elected in 2002. He previously served as the fourth mayor of Nashville and Davidson County from 1991 to 1999.
Bredesen was...
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| x Rick Perry |
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James Richard "Rick" Perry (born March 4, 1950) is a Republican politician and the current Governor of Texas.
Elected Lieutenant Governor of Texas in 1998, he assumed office as governor in December 2000 when Governor George W. Bush resigned before...
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| x Jon Huntsman, Jr. |
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Jon Meade Huntsman, Jr. (Chinese: 洪博培; pinyin: Hóng Bópéi; born March 26, 1960) is an American politician and diplomat and the current United States Ambassador to China. He served as Governor of Utah from 2005 until his resignation on August 11,...
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| x Jim Douglas |
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James H. Douglas (born June 21, 1951) is an American politician from the U.S. state of Vermont. A Republican, he was first elected Governor of Vermont in 2002 and has been reelected three times since then with a majority of the vote. He is also the...
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| x Tim Kaine |
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Timothy Michael "Tim" Kaine (born February 26, 1958) is an American politician, the current governor of Virginia and as of January 21, 2009, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee. He was elected governor in 2005, after serving as...
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| x Christine Gregoire |
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Christine O'Grady "Chris" Gregoire (born March 24, 1947) is the current Governor and former Attorney General of the state of Washington, and a member of the Democratic Party. Gregoire defeated Republican candidate Dino Rossi in 2004 and again in the...
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| x Joe Manchin |
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Joseph "Joe" Manchin III (born August 24, 1947) is an American politician from the State of West Virginia. Manchin was elected Governor of West Virginia in the 2004 election and took office on January 17, 2005; he was reelected in 2008. He is a...
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| x Jim Doyle |
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James Edward "Jim" Doyle (born November 23, 1945) is a Wisconsin politician and member of the Democratic Party. He took office in January 2003 as the 44th Governor of Wisconsin. He defeated incumbent Governor Scott McCallum by a margin of 45% to 41%...
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| x Dave Freudenthal |
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David Duane Freudenthal, or Dave Freudenthal (born October 12, 1950), is the current Governor of Wyoming. A Democrat, he was reelected to his second term on November 7, 2006, and is term-limited in the 2010 election.
The Wyoming Supreme Court has...
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| x C. L. Otter |
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Clement Leroy "Butch" Otter (born May 3, 1942, Caldwell, Idaho) has been Governor of Idaho since January 2007. Otter previously represented the state's First Congressional District.
He was also the lieutenant governor from 1987-2001. He is the first...
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| x John Lynch |
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John H. Lynch (born November 25, 1952) is the 90th Governor of New Hampshire, currently serving his third two-year term.
Lynch was born in Waltham, Massachusetts, the fifth of William and Margaret Lynch's six children. He attended local schools...
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