Oregon Blue Book
Author : Oregon. Office of the Secretary of State
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 36,7 MB
Release : 1895
Category : Oregon
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Kansas Governors
Author : Homer E. Socolofsky
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 23,72 MB
Release : 2021-10-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0700631704
Book Description
This one-stop reference work is a governors’ hall of fame—a compendium of information about the 51 men who have held the chief executive post since the opening of the Kansas Territory in 1854. Using both primary and secondary sources, historian Homer Socolofsky sketches a concise biography of each governor and compares their roles in Kansas history. He also provides comparative election and demographic data, as well as suggestions for additional reading. Supplementing the text are 93 historic photographs, including each chief executive’s portrait and autograph. Twelve maps and tables depict and compare aspects of the governors’ lives, showing occupational background, birthplace, and residence. Kansas Governors brings together in a single volume a far more complete treatment of both territorial and state governors—as well as acting governors—than can be found in other biographical dictionaries. It will be a useful tool for Kansas history buffs, and an essential reference for school and public libraries.
The Book of the States
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,35 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Constitutions
ISBN : 9780872927216
Book Description
Me, Governor?
Author : Richard J. Codey
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,1 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0813550459
Book Description
And so, a new chapter in the life of Richard J. Codey, an undertaker's son born and bred in the Garden State, began on the night of August 12, 2004--he knew from that point his life would never be the same . . . and it hasn't been. His memoir is a breezy, humorous, perceptive, and candid chronicle of local and state government from a man who lived among political movers and shakers for more than three decades. Codey became governor of New Jersey, succeeding James McGreevey, who resigned following a homosexual affair--a shattering scandal and set of circumstances that were bizarre, even for the home state of the Sopranos. At once a political autobiography, filled with lively, incisive anecdotes that record how Codey restored respectability and set a record for good politics and good government in a state so often tarnished, this is also the story about a man and his family.
The Power of American Governors
Author : Thad Kousser
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 15,70 MB
Release : 2012-09-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1139576933
Book Description
With limited authority over state lawmaking, but ultimate responsibility for the performance of government, how effective are governors in moving their programs through the legislature? This book advances a new theory about what makes chief executives most successful and explores this theory through original data. Thad Kousser and Justin H. Phillips argue that negotiations over the budget, on the one hand, and policy bills on the other are driven by fundamentally different dynamics. They capture these dynamics in models informed by interviews with gubernatorial advisors, cabinet members, press secretaries and governors themselves. Through a series of novel empirical analyses and rich case studies, the authors demonstrate that governors can be powerful actors in the lawmaking process, but that what they're bargaining over – the budget or policy – shapes both how they play the game and how often they can win it.
American Governor
Author : Matt Katz
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 31,92 MB
Release : 2016-01-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1476782687
Book Description
The ultimate insider to Chris Christie’s 2016 presidential campaign delivers a definitive biography of the popular and controversial governor of New Jersey—including the true story behind the Bridgegate lane-closure scandal. Journalist Matt Katz has been covering Christie since 2011 and has seen firsthand how the governor appeals to the public through his tactics, rhetoric, and personality. In American Governor, Katz weaves a compelling on-the-ground political narrative that begins with the roots of his family’s journey to America and takes us through his upset victory over Governor Jon Corzine and then along the road to his announcement of his candidacy for the highest office in the country. Packed with exclusive information, interviews, and anecdotes, American Governor illustrates how Christie evolved from an unpopular perennial candidate running for local office to the most watched Republican in the country, a populist with leadership skills, charm, and luck seemingly unparalleled by any other up-and-coming politician. Christie has proven himself a dynamic force of nature by emerging wounded but not unbowed after Bridgegate—a scandal that would have destroyed another politician’s rising star. A political biography by an inside source who’s been on the Chris Christie beat longer than any reporter in New Jersey, American Governor is a thrilling and absorbing look at the modern making of a man and a politician.
The History of the Ministerial Conduct of the Chief Governors of Ireland, (so Far as Relates to that Kingdom,) from the Glorious Revolution in 1688, to the Never-to-be Forgotten 17th of December, 1753. ...
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Page : 96 pages
File Size : 29,24 MB
Release : 1754
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Book Description
The Governors of Florida
Author : Ridgeway Boyd Murphree
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,77 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Florida
ISBN : 9780813066240
Book Description
"An unparalleled two-hundred-year history of Florida's highest office, this volume provides the first in-depth examination of all of Florida's chief executives from the acquisition of Spanish Florida by the United States and the appointment of Andrew Jackson as the territory's first governor in 1821 to the end of Rick Scott's tenure in 2019"--
The Three Governors Controversy
Author : Charles S. Bullock
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 10,61 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0820347345
Book Description
The death of Georgia governor-elect Eugene Talmadge in late 1946 launched a constitutional crisis that ranks as one of the most unusual political events in U.S. history: the state had three active governors at once, each claiming that he was the true elected official. This is the first full-length examination of that episode, which wasn't just a crazy quirk of Georgia politics (though it was that) but the decisive battle in a struggle between the state's progressive and rustic forces that had continued since the onset of the Great Depression. In 1946, rural forces aided by the county unit system, Jim Crow intimidation of black voters, and the Talmadge machine's "loyal 100,000" voters united to claim the governorship. In the aftermath, progressive political forces in Georgia would shrink into obscurity for the better part of a generation. In this volume is the story of how the political, governmental, and Jim Crow social institutions not only defeated Georgia's progressive forces but forestalled their effectiveness for a decade and a half.
Unintimidated
Author : Scott Kevin Walker
Publisher : Sentinel
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 22,90 MB
Release : 2014-08-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1595231110
Book Description
The controversial governor recounts his fight to reform his state and issues a call to action for the whole country In 2010, Scott Walker was elected governor of Wisconsin with a mandate to improve its economy and restore fiscal responsibility. With the state facing a $3.6 billion budget deficit, he proposed a series of reforms to limit the collective bargaining power of public employee unions, which was costing taxpayers billions in pension and health care costs. . In June 2012, he won a special recall election with a higher share of the vote than he had for his original election, becoming the first governor in the country to survive a recall election. In this book, Governor Walker shows how his commitment to limited but effective government paid off. During his tenure Wisconsin has saved more than $1 billion, property taxes have gone down for the first time in twelve years, and the deficit was turned into a surplus. He also shows what his experiences can teach defenders of liberty across the country about standing up to the special interests that favor the status quo.
