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The governor of Virginia is the state's head of government and commander-in-chief of the state's official national guard. The first Constitution of 1776 created the office of governor, to be elected annually by the Virginia State Legislature.
In 1985, Wilder was elected lieutenant governor. Four years later, he ran for statewide office again, and, on January 13, 1990, L. Douglas Wilder became Virginia's sixty-sixth governor. He was the first elected African American governor in United States history.
Douglas Wilder, sworn-in in 1986, was Virginia's first black lieutenant governor. [4] Winsome Sears, sworn in on January 15, 2022, [5] is the first woman to have held the office. [6]
15 kwi 2007 · Born in Richmond, Virginia on January 17, 1931, Lawrence Douglas Wilder was the first African American to be elected governor in the United States of America. For four years Wilder served as the governor of Virginia (1990-1994) after previously serving as Lt. Governor of the state from 1986 to 1990. He later served as mayor of Richmond, Virginia.
Lawrence Douglas Wilder (born January 17, 1931) is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 66th governor of Virginia from 1990 to 1994. He was the first African American to serve as governor of a U.S. state since the Reconstruction era, and the first African American ever elected as governor.
3 maj 2024 · L. Douglas Wilder was governor of Virginia from 1990 until 1994. His was a political career of many firsts: the grandson of enslaved people, he was the first African American elected governor of any state in America. He was the first Black member of the Virginia Senate in the twentieth century.
L. Douglas Wilder, lieutenant governor of Virginia, was elected the state's first Black governor. The fifty-eight-year-old Wilder, a Democrat, won a nar...
