Nellie Tayloe Ross

Nellie Tayloe Ross ( born November 29, 1876 at St. Joseph, Missouri, † December 19, 1977 in Washington, DC) was an American politician and as Governor of the State of Wyoming, the first governor in the United States.

Biography

In her childhood, she lived first in Missouri, where she attended both public and private schools. Then she trained as a kindergarten teacher in Omaha, Nebraska, where she worked for a few years before she came to Cheyenne in 1902, where she met her future husband, William B. Ross, a resident lawyers met.

Nellie Ross was erected in 1924 in Wyoming by the Democrats as a candidate for the governorship after her husband, who had filled this position since 1923, was unexpectedly died in an appendix operation on 2 October 1924. She won the election on November 4 of the same year with 55.1 percent of the vote to Republican EJ Sullivan and became effective on January 5, 1925 her office as governor of Wyoming. Thus she was the first woman to be held this post in the U.S.; 16 days later, Miriam A. Ferguson Governor of Texas. In 1926, she applied for the re-election, but was defeated Frank C. Emerson.

On 3 May 1933, she was appointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to the first director of the U.S. Mint (United States Mint ). This position she held until her retirement in 1953.

After her playing days as a politician Nellie Ross has written several articles on various women's magazines and toured the United States. Your last trip to Wyoming she made in 1972 at the age of 96 years. She died at the age of 101 years. She was buried in Cheyenne, Wyoming.