Talk:List of female governors in the United States

message: Do we need a timeline anymore? It may have served a purpose when there were few female governors, but now it seems redundant.Memworking (talk) 19:41, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Timeline

message: Hello Wikipedians (I hope that's the right term.) I just corrected the female governors page, twice, by adding Kay Orr's bar in the graph and changing "Twenty eight" to "Twenty nine" at the top. I've seen many errors in the past -- mainly just typos, which is good -- but this was my first attempt at a Wiki correction and I hope I did it right. The results seem to indicate so. 
I have not logged in or created an account, and at the moment do not even see how to do so, though I suppose it's here. If there's any real reason to do so in future, I will.
I use Wikipedia occasionally and thank all who work on it. I'm amazed by how high on the Google hit list the Wiki article seems to be for nearly any inquiry. 
After two years of cataloging uncorrected factual errors in The Washington Post -- many hundreds of them! -- I (and the few others who've seen the files) think I'm probably the best editor of the type in America, and I wish I had a condign outlet for these skills. I can tell you they make no friends among those committing the errors, in the establishment, who are trying to cover up their incompetence.
69.143.9.5 18:43, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: 2006 cleanup efforts

message: Miriam Ferguson, first (and second) Governor of Texas, is listed for both her terms (1925-1927 & 1933-1935), but her comments list appears to say the only reason she was elected the second time was because of her husband James Edward Ferguson who was impeached.  But James Ferguson was Governor from 1915-1917, so it wasn't a lineage, she was elected of her own right.  I'm looking for a consensus before I change the notes.  Leobold1 (talk) 02:07, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Misleading 

message: Jane Swift and Vesta Roy were never Governors. They were Lieutenant Governors their entire terms, merely discharging gubernatorial powers & duties as Acting Governors. GoodDay (talk) 16:03, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Clarify: Roy wasn't Lieutenant Governor at the time, as New Hampshire doesn't have that office. GoodDay (talk) 01:53, 28 November 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I moved Roy to a footnote. Knope7 (talk) 01:01, 5 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vesta M. Roy and Jane Swift 

message: Why is NC a different shade of blue on the map?  There doesn't appear to be anything different about it, and the color isnt on the legend. 161.130.178.151 (talk) 00:16, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: North Carolina

message: Where are the sources for this information?
Kimberlyann379 (talk) 16:35, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: sources

message: Might be too many to expand this list, but it would be interesting to know.  First was Elizabeth Upham Yates, a Democrat who ran against Emery J. San Souci in Rhode Island in 1920. Шизомби (Sz) (talk) 06:17, 3 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: No, I guess it was Socialist Anna Agnes Maley who ran against Ernest Lister in Washington in 1912. Шизомби (Sz) (talk) 06:43, 3 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Candidates 

message: NM has (as of just now) had two female governors (the current one, and one a long time ago who was only in office two weeks or so), but the state is not colored on the map. The legend/key also says that grey is the color for states with no female governors ever, but the map actually uses white. And so on.  There are other errors. Since it is providing false information, I'm commented it out until it's replaced with a corrected one.  I'd do it, but I don't have any good vector graphics editing tools on this machine. — SMcCandlish   Talk⇒ ʕ(Õلō)ˀ  Contribs. 06:46, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Map is badly wrong 

message: Am I missing something? The lead currently says both that Ross was elected first, and Ferguson was elected one day before her. These statements can not both be true. -- Kendrick7talk 19:34, 26 June 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: you might find some more details in Miriam A. Ferguson#1924 election and first term.  seems like this needs to be clarified a bit here. Frietjes (talk) 19:46, 26 June 2013 (UTC)

text: and a source here. Frietjes (talk) 19:49, 26 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ross vs Ferguson 

message: At present the article reads a clumsy "As of January 3, 2013, thirty-six women have served or are serving as the governor of a U.S. state (including one from the U.S. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico)."
 
I suggest "As of January 3, 2013, thirty-five women have served or are serving as governors of a U.S. states and one of the U.S. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico."
If somebody wants thirty-five governors somehow to be singular, they're beyond my saving; and I tend to capitalize State, but only when I'm in an American enough mood to spell "capitalize" with the letter zed.  Lower case, as is, is fine with me.
 
It's not clear why Puerto Rico is in here at all.  This naturally leaves us wondering how many there have been in the Virgin Islands, and what else there is out there that has governors. It's a pity these territorial governors are generally elected now, since the Guano Island Act would seem the right sort of legislation for looking after the appointment of washed up old politicians.
This revision is going to take some real work if Garcia Lorca ends up still British but governed by a female American Commander-in-Chief.  
 
DavidLJ (talk) 21:57, 25 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Puerto Rico Is Not A State, Uh, Yet. 

message: The male/female map needs updating, as Hassan has resigned as New Hampshire governor. GoodDay (talk) 03:29, 4 January 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: . MB298 (talk) 04:41, 4 January 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Howdy , it still looks 'pink'. GoodDay (talk) 04:43, 4 January 2017 (UTC)
replies: text:  try reloading the page. MB298 (talk) 04:44, 4 January 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Still pink. Maybe it'll show blue later. GoodDay (talk) 04:48, 4 January 2017 (UTC)
replies: text:  Try purging your cache. MB298 (talk) 05:16, 4 January 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Got it. Browser needed to be cleared up. GoodDay (talk) 05:20, 4 January 2017 (UTC)

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thread_title:  Map 

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message: While it is interesting to know that some of the women were pregnant during their service, I do not believe it is conducive to this article. Personal health and family information and would be better served under the individual bio and/or a separate article.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by GesikaMarie (talk • contribs) 16:28, 10 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pregnancy Section 

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message: Map needs update, as Puerto Rico now has a male as governor. GoodDay (talk) 18:34, 2 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Puerto Rico 

message: Both Jane Swift and Sarah Palin are listed as the first governor to give birth while in office. They can't both be first.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.163.124.210 (talk) 23:39, 1 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Giving birth in office 

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