TABLE 4.15 the Secretaries of State, 2019
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SECRETARIES OF STATE TABLE 4.15 The Secretaries of State, 2019 Maximum consecutive State or other Method of Length of regular Date of first Present term Number of terms allowed by jurisdiction Name and party Selection term in years service ends previous terms constitution Alabama John Merrill (R) E 4 1/2015 1/2023 1 2 Alaska --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (a) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Arizona Katie Hobbs (D) E 4 1/2019 1/2023 0 2 Arkansas John Thurston (R) E 4 1/2019 1/2023 0 2 California Alex Padilla (D) E 4 1/2015 1/2023 1 2 Colorado Jena Griswold (D) E 4 1/2019 1/2023 0 2 Connecticut Denise Merrill (D) E 4 1/2011 1/2023 2 … Delaware Jeffrey Bullock (D) A (b) 4 1/2009 … 0 … Florida Laurel Lee (R) A 4 2/2019 … 0 2 Georgia Brad Raffensperger (R) E 4 1/2019 1/2023 0 … Hawaii --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (a) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Idaho Lawerence Denney (R) E 4 1/2015 1/2023 1 … Illinois Jesse White (D) E 4 1/1999 1/2023 5 … Indiana Connie Lawson (R) E 4 3/2012 (h) 1/2023 2 2 Iowa Paul Pate (R) E 4 12/2014 12/2022 1 … Kansas Scott Schwab (R) E 4 1/2019 1/2023 0 … Kentucky Alison Lundergan Grimes (D) E 4 12/2011 12/2019 1 2 Louisiana Kyle Ardoin (R) E 4 5/2018 (c) 1/2020 … … Maine Matt Dunlap (D) L 2 1/2005 (d) 1/2021 (d) 5 (e) Maryland John Wobensmith (R) A … 1/2015 … … … Massachusetts William Francis Galvin (D) E 4 1/1995 1/2023 6 … Michigan Jocelyn Benson (D) E 4 1/2019 1/2023 0 2 Minnesota Steve Simon (DFL) E 4 1/2015 1/2023 1 … Mississippi C. Delbert Hosemann Jr.(R) E 4 1/2008 1/2020 2 … Missouri Jay Ashcroft (R) E 4 1/2017 1/2021 0 … Montana Corey Stapleton (R) E 4 1/2017 1/2021 0 (f) Nebraska Robert Evnen (R) E 4 1/2019 1/2023 0 … Nevada Barbara Cegavske (R) E 4 1/2015 1/2023 1 2 New Hampshire William Gardner (D) L 2 12/1976 12/2020 21 … New Jersey Tahesha Way (D) A … 1/2018 … 0 … New Mexico Maggie Toulouse Oliver (D) E 4 12/2016 (g) 12/2022 (g) 2 New York Rossanna Rosado D) A … 6/2016 … 0 … North Carolina Elaine Marshall (D) E 4 1/1997 1/2021 5 … North Dakota Alvin A. Jaeger (R) E 4 1/1993 12/2022 6 … Ohio Frank LaRose (R) E 4 1/2019 1/2023 0 2 Oklahoma Michael Rogers (R) A 4 1/2019 1/2023 0 … Oregon Bev Clarno (R) E 4 4/2019 (l) 1/2021 0 2 Pennsylvania Kathy Boockvar (D) (acting) A … 1/2019 (i) … 0 … Rhode Island Nellie Gorbea (D) E 4 1/2015 1/2023 1 2 South Carolina Mark Hammond (R) E 4 1/2003 1/2023 4 … South Dakota Steve Barnett (R) E 4 1/2019 1/2023 0 2 Tennessee Tre Hargett (R) L 4 1/2009 1/2021 2 … Texas Vacant A … … … 0 … Utah --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (a) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Vermont Jim Condos (D) E 2 1/2011 1/2021 4 … Virginia Kelly Thomasson (D) A … 4/2016 … 0 … Washington Kim Wyman (R) E 4 1/2013 1/2021 1 … West Virginia Andrew “Mac” Warner (R) E 4 1/2017 1/2021 0 … Wisconsin Douglas LaFollette (D) E 4 1/1974 (j) 1/2023 11 (j) … Wyoming Ed Buchanan (R) E 4 3/2018 (k) 1/2023 (k) … American Samoa --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (a) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Guam --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (a) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CNMI* --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (a) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Puerto Rico (m) A … (m) … … … U.S. Virgin Islands --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (a) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- See footnotes at end of table 146 The Book of the States 2019 SECRETARIES OF STATE TABLE 4.15 The Secretaries of State, 2019 (continued) Source: The Council of State Governments, June 2019. (g) Secretary Oliver was elected in November 2016 to fill the *Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands remaining two years of an unexpired term and was re-elected to Key: her first full term in November 2018. E—Elected by voters (h) Lawson was appointed in 2012 to serve out an unexpired term. A—Appointed by governor She was then elected in 2014 and 2018. L—Elected by legislature (i) Secretary Boockvar was named acting secretary upon the resigna- …—No provision for tion of Robert Torres in January 2019. (a) No secretary of state; lieutenant govenor performs functions of (j) LaFollette was first elected in 1974 and served a four-year term. this office. He was elected again in 1982 and has been re-elected since. The (b) Appointed by the governor and confirmed by the Senate. present term ends in 2019. (c) Ardoin became acting secretary on May 2018. He replaced Tom (k) Edward Buchanan was appointed March 5, 2018 to fill Ed Mur- Schedler. ray’s term and was elected to his first full term in November 2018. (d) Secretary Matthew Dunlap previously served as secretary of state (l) Secretary Clarno was appointed in April 2019 by Gov. Kate Brown from 2005 to 2010. He was elected by the Legislature to serve to fill the unexpired term of Dennis Richardson, who died in Feb- again in January 2013 and re-elected in January 2015, 2017 and ruary 2019. 2019. (m) Luis Rivera Marín, the territory’s secretary of state, resigned in (e) Statutory term limit of four consecutive two-year terms. July 2019. (f) Eligible for eight out of 16 years. The Council of State Governments 147.