This volume contains facts about the nearly 2,300 individuals who served as governors of American states and territories from 1775 to 1978. Quotations from the speeches and writings of various governors are interspersed throughout the text
Includes bibliographical references (pages 348-363)
This book "contains facts about the nearly 2,300 individuals who have served as chief executive of the states and territories since the Revolutionary times, plus statistics for past gubernatorial elections in all 50 states. Interspersed through the volume are quotations from the speeches and writings of various governors" -- Introd