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Virginia now GOP

The map should be updated to reflect Governor Youngkin having been sworn in. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:8388:8700:DA00:534:4E8F:CEB1:CD99 (talk) 20:30, 16 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Update Governors Map

The 2013 governor of North Carolina is Republican, while the 2013 governor of Puerto Rico is Democrat, the governor of America Samoa is now independent. B-watchmework (talk) 18:46, 25 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Northern Mariana Islands governor Eloy Inos is now a member of the Covenant Party. B-watchmework (talk) 18:46, 20 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Ross & Ferguson

Corrected sentence concerning the first 2 female governors, it erroneously gave their husbands (and earlier governors) as their predecessors. GoodDay (talk) 22:09, 27 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Proposed merge with State Constitution Gubernatorial Qualifications in the United States

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. A summary of the conclusions reached follows.

To merge State Constitution Gubernatorial Qualifications in the United States into Governor (United States) on the grounds that the former benefit from the wider context of the latter. Klbrain (talk) 10:24, 25 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

This table could easily be placed in the broader article on state governors. I also don't think a table is necessary, especially a separate article. Presidentman talk · contribs (Talkback) 23:17, 3 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

While I agree with the merger proposal, I don't think merging the two articles would require eliminating the Wiki-table formatting currently used in the gubernatorial qualifications article.--TommyBoy (talk) 19:20, 19 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Y I concur with the proposed merge and incorporation of the gubernatorial qualifications material into the state governors article. Cheers. Drdpw (talk) 18:34, 4 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Meh, for once I'm not a huge fan of a merger, mainly because this is mainly trivia that's not really needed like this in the first place. In few cases are the qualifications actually material to who runs (or is considering running) for office, and it's not really something you compare from one state to another ("Oh look, this state would let just anybody run but that's one's super strict"). I think it's best to just say "# states have a minimum age, usually 30. # have residency, citizenship, or voter registration requirements." and then the articles for each governorship has the details. Reywas92^Talk 18:54, 4 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Merger complete. Klbrain (talk) 10:24, 25 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Presidents of states

I recently added this:

During the 1780s when the Articles of Confederation were in effect, in nine of the thirteen states, the head of government was called the governor, in three (South Carolina, Delaware, and New Hampshire) he was called the president, and in one (Pennsylvania) the government was headed by an Executive Council of three men, one of whom was the president of the executive council.^{[citation needed]} When the Constitution of the United States was adopted, it was decided to call the head of the federal government the president of the United States and shortly after that the states calling their head of government the president changed the title to governor.^{[citation needed]}

Someone deleted it.

Since these facts are widely known, I thought someone well read in that area of history would take my citation-needed tags as an invitation to add suitable sources, but instead someone deleted it. Is this not essential to properly understanding the history? Can someone here who knows which books are best to cite in support of these facts add that information? Michael Hardy (talk) 01:18, 26 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

In general, it's a bad idea to add uncited material that you can't substantiate. The right approach is what you're doing now: post on the talk page and ask for help finding sources for what you believe to be true. TJRC (talk) 02:13, 26 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

LGBT Governors

Should Maura Healy be added to the LGBT governors section since she identifies as lesbian? Or should we wait until she's sworn in? Augusta459 (talk) 01:51, 14 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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