FYI: Ella T. Grasso

By danielifearn - Posted on 08 January 2009

January 8, 1975 – December 31, 1980
Ella T. Grasso becomes the first elected "in her own right" woman to serve as governor of a U.S. state. Previous women governors had been the wife or widow of a male governor. She was also the first woman to be the Governor of Connecticut.