SECRETARIES OF STATE

Table 4.15 THE SECRETARIES OF STATE, 2003 Maximum Length of Number of consecutive State or other Method of regular term Date of Present previous terms allowed jurisdiction Name and party selection in years first service term ends terms by constitution Alabama ...... Nancy Worley (D) E 4 1/03 1/07 . . . 2 Alaska ...... ………………………………………………………………….(a)………………………………………………………… Arizona ...... Jan Brewer (R) E 4 1/03 1/07 . . . 2 Arkansas ...... Charlie Daniels (D) E 4 1/03 1/07 . . . 2 California ...... Kevin Shelley (D) E 4 1/03 1/07 . . . 2 Colorado ...... Donetta Davidson (R) E 4 7/99 (b) 1/07 1 (b) 2 (b) Connecticut ...... Susan Bysiewicz (D) E 4 1/99 1/07 1 . . . Delaware ...... Harriet Smith Windsor (D) A . . . 1/01 ...... Florida ...... Glenda Hood (R) A . . . 2/03 ...... Georgia ...... Cathy Cox (D) E 4 1/99 1/07 1 . . . Hawaii ...... ………………………………………………………………….(a)………………………………………………………… Idaho ...... Ben Ysursa (R) E 4 1/03 1/07 ...... Illinois ...... Jesse White (D) E 4 1/99 1/07 1 . . . Indiana ...... Todd Rokita (R) E 4 1/03 1/07 . . . 2 Iowa ...... Chet Culver (D) E 4 1/99 1/07 1 . . . Kansas ...... Ron Thornburgh (R) E 4 1/95 1/07 2 . . . Kentucky ...... John Y. Brown III (D) E 4 12/95 12/03 1 2 Louisiana ...... W.Fox McKeithen (R) E 4 1/88 1/04 3 . . . Maine ...... Dan Gwadosky (D) L 2 1/97 12/04 3 . . . Maryland ...... R. Karl Aumann (R) A . . . 1/03 ...... Massachusetts ...... William Francis Galvin (D) E 4 1/95 1/07 2 . . . Michigan ...... Terri Land (R) E 4 1/03 1/07 . . . 2 Minnesota ...... Mary Kiffmeyer (R) E 4 1/99 1/07 1 . . . Mississippi ...... Eric Clark (D) E 4 1/96 1/04 1 . . . Missouri ...... Matt Blunt (R) E 4 1/01 1/05 ...... Montana ...... Bob Brown (R) E 4 1/01 1/05 . . . (c) Nebraska ...... John Gale (R) E 4 12/00 (d) 1/07 (d) 2 (d) Nevada ...... Dean Heller (R) E 4 1/95 1/07 2 2 (f) New Hampshire ...... William Gardner (D) L 2 1/76 ...... New Jersey ...... Regena Thomas (D) A . . . 1/02 ...... New Mexico ...... Rebecca Vigil-Giron (D) E 4 1/87 (g) 1/07 2 2 New York ...... Randy Daniels (D) A . . . 4/01 ...... North Carolina ...... Elaine Marshall (D) E 4 1/97 1/05 1 . . . North Dakota ...... Alvin Jaeger (R) E 4 1/93 1/05 2 . . . Ohio ...... J. Kenneth Blackwell (R) E 4 1/99 1/07 1 2 Oklahoma ...... M. Susan Savage (D) A . . . 1/03 ...... Oregon ...... Bill Bradbury (D) E 4 1/99 (e) 1/05 (e) 2 Pennsylvania ...... Benjamin Ramos (D) (h) A . . . 1/03 ...... Rhode Island ...... Matthew Brown (D) E 4 1/03 1/07 . . . 2 South Carolina ...... Mark Hammond(R) E 4 1/03 1/07 ...... South Dakota ...... Chris Nelson (R) E 4 1/03 1/07 . . . 2 Tennessee ...... Riley Darnell (D) L 4 1/93 1/05 2 . . . Texas ...... Gwyn Shea (R) A . . . 1/02 ...... Utah ...... ………………………………………………………………….(a)………………………………………………………… Vermont ...... Deb Markowitz (D) E 2 1/99 1/05 2 . . . Virginia ...... Anita Rimler (D) A . . . 1/02 ...... Washington ...... Sam Reed (R) E 4 1/01 1/05 ...... West Virginia ...... Joe Manchin (D) E 4 1/01 1/05 ...... Wisconsin ...... Douglas LaFollette (D) E 4 1/99 1/07 1 . . . Wyoming ...... Joe Meyer (R) E 4 1/99 1/07 1 . . . American Samoa ...... ………………………………………………………………….(a)………………………………………………………… Guam ...... ………………………………………………………………….(a)………………………………………………………… No. Mariana Islands ...... ………………………………………………………………….(a)………………………………………………………… Puerto Rico ...... Ferdinand M. Ramos (PDP) A . . . 1/01 ...... U.S. Virgin Islands ...... ………………………………………………………………….(a)…………………………………………………………

Source: The Council of State Governments, February 2003 and The National (c) Eligible for eight out of 16 years. Association of Secretaries of State, February 2003. (d) Secretary Gale was appointed by Gov. Mike Johanns in December 2000 Key: upon the resignation of Scott Moore. He was elected to a full four-year term E — Elected by voters. in November 2002. A — Appointed by governor. (e) Secretary Bradbury was appointed Secretary of State in November 1999 L — Elected by legislature. and was elected to a four-year term in November 2000. . . . — No provision for. (f) Term limits were not effective until Secretary Heller’s second term in (a) No secretary of state. office. His second term counts as his first. (b) Secretary Davidson was appointed by Gov. Bill Owens in July 1999 (g) Secretary Vigil-Giron served from 1987-1991. She was elected again in upon the death of Secretary Vikki Buckley. She was elected to finish out the 1998 and in 2002. remaining two-year term in November 2000, and then was re-elected to a full (h) Benjamin Ramos was appointed acting Secretary of the Commonwealth four-year term in November 2002. by Gov. Edward Rendell on January 21, 2003

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