SECRETARIES OF STATE

Table 4.15 THE SECRETARIES OF STATE, 2008

Maximum Length of Number of consecutive State or other Method of regular term Date of previous terms allowed jurisdiction Name and party selection in years first service Present term ends terms by constitution Alabama ...... Beth Chapman (R) E 4 1/07 1/11 . . . 2 Alaska ...... (a) ...... Arizona ...... Jan Brewer (R) E 4 1/03 1/11 1 2 Arkansas...... Charlie Daniels (D) E 4 12/02 12/10 1 2 California ...... Debra Bowen (D) E 4 1/07 1/11 . . . 2 Colorado...... Mike Coffman (R) E 4 1/07 1/11 . . . 2 Connecticut ...... Susan Bysiewicz (D) E 4 1/99 1/11 2 . . . Delaware...... Harriet Smith Windsor (D) A . . . 1/01 ...... Florida ...... Kurt Browning (R) A . . . 12/06 ...... Georgia ...... Karen Handel (R) E 4 1/07 1/11 ...... Hawaii...... (a) ...... Idaho...... Ben Ysursa (R) E 4 1/03 1/11 1 . . . Illinois...... Jesse White (D) E 4 1/99 1/11 2 . . . Indiana...... Todd Rokita (R) E 4 1/03 1/11 1 2 Iowa ...... Michael A. Mauro (D) E 4 12/06 12/10 ...... Kansas ...... Ron Thornburgh (R) E 4 1/95 1/11 3 . . . Kentucky ...... Trey Grayson (R) E 4 12/03 12/11 1 2 Louisiana ...... Jay Dardenne (R) E 4 11/06 12/07 (b) ...... Maine...... Matthew Dunlap (D) L 2 1/05 1/09 1 . . . Maryland...... Dennis Schnepfe (D) A . . . 2/07 ...... Massachusetts...... William Francis Galvin (D) E 4 1/95 1/11 3 . . . Michigan...... Terri Lynn Land (R) E 4 1/03 1/11 1 2 Minnesota...... Mark Ritchie (DFL) E 4 1/07 1/11 . . . 2 Mississippi ...... C. Delbert Hosemann Jr. (R) E 4 1/08 1/12 ...... Missouri...... Robin Carnahan (D) E 4 1/05 1/09 ...... Montana ...... Brad Johnson (R) E 4 1/05 1/09 . . . (c) Nebraska...... John Gale (R) E 4 12/00 (d) 1/11 (d) . . . Nevada...... Ross Miller (D) E 4 1/07 1/11 . . . 2 New Hampshire...... William Gardner (D) L 2 12/76 12/10 16 . . . New Jersey...... Nina Mitchell Wells (D) A . . . 1/06 1/10 ...... New Mexico ...... Mary E. Herrera (D) E 4 1/07 12/10 . . . 2 New York ...... Lorraine Cortés-Vázquez (D) A . . . 3/07 ...... North Carolina...... Elaine Marshall (D) E 4 1/97 1/09 2 . . . North Dakota...... Alvin A. Jaeger (R) E 4 (e) 1/93 12/10 4 . . . Ohio ...... Jennifer Brunner (D) E 4 1/07 1/11 . . . 2 Oklahoma ...... M. Susan Savage (D) A 4 1/03 1/11 1 . . . Oregon ...... Bill Bradbury (D) E 4 1/99 (f) 1/09 (f) 2 Pennsylvania ...... Pedro A. Cortés (D) A . . . 5/03 ...... Rhode Island ...... Ralph Mollis (D) E 4 1/07 1/11 . . . 2 South Carolina ...... Mark Hammond (R) E 4 1/03 1/11 1 . . . South Dakota...... Chris Nelson (R) E 4 1/03 1/11 1 2 Tennessee...... Riley Darnell (D) L 4 1/93 1/09 3 . . . Texas ...... Phil Wilson (R) A . . . 7/07 ...... Utah ...... (a) ...... Vermont...... Deb Markowitz (D) E 2 1/99 1/09 4 . . . Virginia...... Katherine K. Hanley (D) A . . . 3/06 ...... Washington...... Sam Reed (R) E 4 1/01 1/09 1 . . . West Virginia...... Betty Ireland (R) E 4 1/05 1/09 ...... Wisconsin...... Douglas LaFollette (D) E 4 1/99 1/11 2 . . . Wyoming...... Max Maxfield (R) E 4 1/07 1/11 ...... American Samoa...... (a) ...... Guam ...... (a) ...... No. Mariana Islands...... (a) ...... Puerto Rico...... Fernando J. Bonilla (PDP) A . . . 2005 ...... U.S. Virgin Islands ...... (a) ......

See footnotes at end of table.

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THE SECRETARIES OF STATE, 2008—Continued

Source: The Council of State Governments’ survey, January 2008. assumed the duties of secretary of state until the special election could be held. Key: Dardenne was elected to a full term in the 2007 general election. E — Elected by voters. (c) Eligible for eight out of 16 years. A — Appointed by governor. (d) Secretary Gale was appointed by Governor Mike Johanns in December L — Elected by legislature. 2000 upon the resignation of Scott Moore. He was elected to a full four-year . . . — No provision for. term in November 2002 and again in 2006. (a) No secretary of state; lieutenant governor performs functions of this (e) Because of a constitutional change approved by voters in 2000, the term office. See Tables 4.12 through 4.14. for the secretary elected in 2004 was for two years. It will revert to a four-year (b) Dardenne was elected in a special election September 20, 2006. After term in 2007. the death of W. Fox McKeithen in July 2005, First Deputy Secretary Al Ater (f) Secretary Bradbury was appointed secretary of state in November 1999 and was elected to a four-year term in November 2000 and 2004.

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