{"id":1772,"date":"2026-01-05T00:10:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T05:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1772"},"modified":"2025-12-09T15:20:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T20:20:53","slug":"nellie-tayloe-ross-became-the-first-woman-governor-in-1925","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1772","title":{"rendered":"Nellie Tayloe Ross Became the First Woman Governor in 1925"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-21760 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Nellie-Tayloe-Ross-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>Nellie Tayloe Ross became the first woman governor<\/strong>. She became Wyoming\u2019s top executive in 1925. Her husband was governor, but he died of complications from an appendectomy. She then ran for the governorship and won.\u00a0The National Governors Association provides a great database regarding governors at:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nga.org\/cms\/home.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.nga.org\/cms\/home.html<\/a>. Children could find out how many of today&#8217;s governors are women.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nellie Tayloe Ross became the first woman governor. She became Wyoming\u2019s top executive in 1925. Her husband was governor, but he died of complications from an appendectomy. She then ran for the governorship and won.\u00a0The National Governors Association provides a great database regarding governors at:\u00a0http:\/\/www.nga.org\/cms\/home.html. Children could find out how many of today&#8217;s governors are <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1772' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4840,4838,4839,4074,615],"class_list":["post-1772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4840","tag-first-woman-governor","tag-january-5","tag-nellie-tayloe-ross","tag-wyoming","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1772"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28938,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772\/revisions\/28938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}