Word: governorship
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Stassen of Arizona." Thus he was not taken all that seriously by the Republican establishment. This time around, everyone assumed that Burton Barr, the G.O.P. leader of the house who had the personal backing of Ronald Reagan, would easily capture the nomination and probably go on to win the governorship that Democrat Bruce Babbitt is vacating...
...never seen the party so united," said former Governor Sam Goddard. In fact, however, Democrats as well as Republicans helped Schulz get the signatures to run as an independent. The Democrats could be split so badly by the Schulz candidacy that Mecham just might slip into the governorship...
...guiding force behind the council in its effort to redress that balance is one of California's best-known pols, Jesse Unruh, 63. Once nicknamed "Big Daddy," Unruh achieved national prominence as speaker of the California state assembly from 1961 to 1969, then lost a race for the governorship in 1970 to Ronald Reagan. Four years later Unruh re-emerged as state treasurer, a post that he soon made into a substantial power base. His office now controls $16 billion to $18 billion in investment funds and sells more than $1 billion worth of bonds annually. As he puts...
...Missouri, the G.O.P. retained the governorship that Christopher ("Kit") Bond was required to give up after serving two terms. His successor: Attorney General John Ashcroft, 42, a born-again Christian who sometimes ended his stump speeches with a gospel hymn from one of the record albums he has co-recorded. Ashcroft beat back the challenge of Democrat Kenneth Rothman, 49, Lieutenant Governor for the past four years. A graduate of Yale and the son of minister, Ashcroft defended his failure to prosecute dioxin polluters by pointing out that doing so precipitately might have jeopardized the federal buyout of polluted homesites...
...Hunt's governorship was also won by a Republican, Rep. James G. Martin, only the second Republican to capture the statehouse in the last century...