Question: When was the governor who appointed Lana Gordon first elected governor?

Context articles: Sam Brownback
Montana gubernatorial election, 2000
Amazonino Mendes
Lana Gordon (Kansas politician)
Ezequiel Cabeza De Baca
Leonel Brizola
Victor G. Atiyeh
Linda Lingle
Alberto A. Villavert
Mark J. Bennett

Samuel Dale Brownback (born September 12, 1956) is an American politician and diplomat who is the 46th Governor of Kansas.
 A member of the Republican Party, Brownback was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives during the Republican Revolution of 1994, representing Kansas's 2nd congressional district for a single term, before running in a 1996 special election for the U.S. Senate seat previously held by Bob Dole.
 He won the special election and the following two regular elections, serving until 2011.
 He ran for president in 2008, but withdrew before the primaries began and endorsed eventual Republican nominee John McCain.
 He was elected Governor of Kansas in 2010 and took office in January 2011.
The 2000 Montana gubernatorial election took place on November 7, 2000.
 Incumbent Governor of Montana Marc Racicot, who was first elected in 1992 and was re-elected in 1996, was unable to seek re-election due to term limits.
 Judy Martz, the Lieutenant Governor of Montana under Racicot for four years, won the Republican primary and advanced to the general election, where she faced Mark O'Keefe, the Montana State Auditor and Democratic nominee.
 Despite the fact that George W. Bush, the Republican nominee for president in 2000, won the state in a landslide, the race between Martz and O'Keefe was close.
 However, Martz managed to narrowly defeat him to win her first and only term as governor.
 As of 2017, this is the most recent election in which a Republican was elected Governor of Montana.
Amazonino Armando Mendes (born November 16, 1939 Eirunepé, Amazonas) is a Brazilian politician.
 He served as the Governor of the Brazilian state of Amazonas for two non-consecutive tenures.
 He first served as Governor from 1987 until April 2, 1990, when he resigned from office to run for the Federal Senate.
 He was elected governor in 1995, serving from 1995 until 2003.
 In 2017, Mendes was elected Governor of Amazonas succeeding David Almeida, who assumed as interim following the Supreme Electoral Tribunal impeachment of former Governor José Melo and former Vice Governor Henrique Oliveira.
 As a result, the President of the Legislative Assembly of Amazonas State assumed until the elections were held on the 6th and 27th of August.
Lana Gordon (born August 20, 1950) is an American politician who has served as the Kansas Secretary of Labor under the administration of Governor Sam Brownback since 2012.
 A member of the Republican Party, Gordon served as a member of the Kansas House of Representatives, representing the 52nd district from 2001 to 2012.
Ezequiel Cabeza De Baca (November 1, 1864 – February 18, 1917) was the first Hispano elected for office as Lieutenant Governor in New Mexico's first election.
 His term as Lieutenant Governor was followed by his election as the second elected Governor of New Mexico.
 This term was brief as he died shortly after taking office.
 He was the state's first elected Hispanic governor, and the first governor born in New Mexico after its annexation by the United States.
Leonel de Moura Brizola (January 22, 1922 – June 21, 2004) was a Brazilian politician.
 Launched in politics by Getúlio Vargas, Brizola was the only politician to serve as elected governor of two Brazilian states, before and after the 1964-1985 military dictatorship.
 In 1958 he was elected governor of Rio Grande do Sul, and in 1982 and 1990 he was elected governor of Rio de Janeiro.
 He was also vice-president of the Socialist International and served as Honorary President of that organization from October 2003 until his death in June 2004.
 One of the few Brazilian major political figures able to overcome the dictatorship's twenty-years ban on his political activity, Brizola was a non-Marxist Left nationalist who successfully recycled his political agenda to cope with a post-Cold War setting .
 His later party, the Democratic Labour Party, practisized a form of social democratic, left-wing politics based off on a form of populism, derived from earlier Varguism, a highly nationalistic social democratic mass movement.
Victor George "Vic" Atiyeh ( ; February 20, 1923 – July 20, 2014) was an American politician and member of the Republican Party who served as the 32nd Governor of Oregon from 1979 to 1987.
 The first elected governor of Syrian descent in the United States, Atiyeh was elected in 1978, defeating incumbent Democratic Governor Robert W. Straub.
 He was re-elected against future Governor Ted Kulongoski with 61.6% of the vote in 1982, the largest margin in 32 years.
 Prior to being elected Governor, Atiyeh had served continuously in the Oregon Legislature since 1959, initially in the House and later in the Senate.
 To date, Atiyeh is the last Republican to have served as the governor of Oregon.
Linda Lingle ("née" Cutter; June 4, 1953) is an American politician, who was the sixth Governor of Hawaii from 2002 until 2010.
 She was the first Republican elected governor of Hawaii since the departure of William F. Quinn in 1962.
 Lingle was also the first female governor of Hawaii; first Jewish governor of Hawaii; first county mayor elected governor of Hawaii; and the first governor of Hawaii not to have any children.
 Prior to her gubernatorial administration, Lingle served as Maui County mayor, council member, and chair of the Hawaii Republican Party.
Alberto Villavert y Arcega (25 April 1903 – 1 March 1984) was a Filipino Politician who led the Philippine Province of Antique between 1937 to 1946 both as an appointed and elected Governor.
 He was first elected as presidente municipal (town mayor) of Antique's capital town of San Jose in 1928 and was the youngest presidente municipal in his time at the age of 24 and then became governor of the province in 1937.
 Villavert became an Antique Representative of the National Assembly from 1943-1944.
 During World War II, he served in the USAFFE and subsequently appointed as Governor of the Province again from 1946 to 1947 and then elected and served the same post from 1948 - 1951.
Mark J. Bennett is a Honolulu, Hawaii attorney who served as Attorney General of Hawaii from 2003 to 2010 in the two-term administration of Republican Governor Linda Lingle.
 He is the first attorney general appointed by a Republican governor since the governorship of William F. Quinn, the first elected governor of the state.
 Bennett was preceded in office by Earl I. Anzai and later succeeded to the office by David M. Louie.