American Governors and Gubernatorial Elections 1979-1987

This continuation of a classic serves as a valuable research and reference tool for those seeking basic biographical information about American governors and students wishing to do statistical analysis of voting trends in gubernatorial elections. Arranged alphabetically by name of state the book contains brief biographical data on governors including date of birth birth place residence occupation party affiliation date and age at death and date and age on assuming office. A second set of tables for each state includes election statistics by party for all gubernatorial elections.