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2010 Wyoming Elections
A general election was held in the U.S. state of Wyoming on Tuesday, November 2, 2010. All of the state's executive officers—the Governor, Secretary of State, Auditor, Treasurer, and Superintendent of Public Instruction—were up for election. Gubernatorial election Incumbent Governor Dave Freudenthal, a Democrat, was ostensibly unable to run for re-election due to term limits. Despite the questionable legality of the state's term limits, Freudenthal did not challenge his inability to seek re-election and declined to seek a third term. Former U.S. Attorney Matt Mead narrowly won the Republican nomination while former Teton County Commissioner Leslie Petersen won the Democratic primary. In the general election, Mead defeated Petersen in a landslide. Secretary of State Incumbent Secretary of State Max Maxfield, a Republican, ran for re-election to a second term. Democratic primary Candidates * Andrew Simons, political activist Results Republican primary C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wyoming
Wyoming () is a U.S. state, state in the Mountain states, Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It is bordered by Montana to the north and northwest, South Dakota and Nebraska to the east, Idaho to the west, Utah to the southwest, and Colorado to the south. With a population of 576,851 in the 2020 United States census, Wyoming is the List of U.S. states and territories by population, least populous state despite being the List of U.S. states and territories by area, 10th largest by area, with the List of U.S. states by population density, second-lowest population density after Alaska. The state capital and List of municipalities in Wyoming, most populous city is Cheyenne, Wyoming, Cheyenne, which had an estimated population of 63,957 in 2018. Wyoming's western half is covered mostly by the ranges and rangelands of the Rocky Mountains, while the eastern half of the state is high-elevation prairie called the High Plains (United States), High Plains. It is drier ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cynthia Cloud
Cynthia I. Cloud (born February 22, 1969) is the former Republican state auditor of Wyoming, United States, the twentieth person to hold the position. She was elected in 2010, when the incumbent Rita Meyer instead ran unsuccessfully for governor of Wyoming against fellow Republican Matt Mead. Education Cloud graduated magna cum laude from the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa, Alabama, with a degree in accounting. When she previously resided in Cody Cody may refer to: People *Cody (given name) *Cody (surname) * Cody (wrestler), a ring name of Cody Runnels Places Canada * Cody, British Columbia United States * Cody, Florida * Cody (Duluth), Minnesota * Cody, Missouri * Cody, Nebraska *Cody, ..., she completed the Park County Leadership Institute. Personal life Cynthia and her husband, Charles Morgan Cloud, have four children. Electoral history External links Wyoming State Auditor {{DEFAULTSORT:Cloud, Cynthia 1969 births 21st-century American politicians ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Massie
Mike Massie (born January 8, 1954) is a Democratic former member of the Wyoming Senate, having represented the 9th district from 1998 to 2010. He previously served in the Wyoming House of Representatives from 1995 through 1998. After considering a run for governor in 2010, he instead sought the position of State Superintendent of Public Instruction. He was defeated in the general election A general election is a political voting election where generally all or most members of a given political body are chosen. These are usually held for a nation, state, or territory's primary legislative body, and are different from by-elections ( ... by the Republican Cindy Hill of Cheyenne, 113,026 votes (59.2 percent) to 71,772 (37.6 percent). Hill had unseated incumbent Jim McBride in the Republican primary. Notes External linksWyoming State Legislature - Senator Mike Massieofficial WY Senate websiteProject Vote Smart - Senator Mike Massie (WY)profile *''Follow the Money'' - Mike Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laramie County, Wyoming
Laramie County is a county located at the southeast corner of the U.S. state, state of Wyoming. As of the 2020 United States Census, the population was 100,512 or 17.4% of the state's total 2020 population, making it the List of counties in Wyoming, most populous county in Wyoming, but the least populous county in the United States to be the List of the most populous counties by U.S. state, most populous in its state. The county seat is Cheyenne, Wyoming, Cheyenne, the state capital. The county lies west of the Nebraska state line and north of the Colorado state line. Laramie County comprises the Cheyenne metropolitan area, Cheyenne, WY Metropolitan Statistical Area. The city of Laramie, Wyoming, is in neighboring Albany County, Wyoming, Albany County. History Laramie County was originally created in 1867 as a county within the Dakota Territory. The county was named for Jacques La Ramee, a French-Canadian fur-trader. In 1867, a portion of Laramie County was annexed to create ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim McBride (Wyoming Politician)
Jim McBride is a Republican politician who served as the Wyoming Superintendent of Public Instruction from 2005 to 2011. McBride was appointed by Governor Dave Freudenthal to the office in 2005 and he was re-elected in 2006 before losing re-election to Cindy Hill in 2010. Background McBride was born in Sunbury, Pennsylvania, and graduated from Shamokin Area High School in 1966. He then attended Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, graduating with a bachelor's degree in earth and space science in 1970, and Pennsylvania State University, where he graduated with a master's degree in education in 1971. He then taught junior high school science in Dover, Delaware, from 1971 to 1975, when he joined the United States Air Force. He became the President of the Community College of the Air Force in 1996, and served until 2001. McBride then relocated to Bennett, Colorado, where he became superintendent of the local school district. He moved to Wyoming in 2003, when he accepted a positio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Gordon (politician)
Mark Gordon (born March 14, 1957) is an American politician who has served as the 33rd governor of Wyoming since January 7, 2019. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as state treasurer; then-governor Matt Mead appointed him to that position on October 26, 2012, to fill the vacancy created by the death of Joseph Meyer. Early life and education Gordon was born in New York City, the son of Catherine (née Andrews) and Crawford Gordon. Gordon’s father grew up on Drumlin Farm, in Lincoln, Massachusetts. His parents married on October 27, 1945, at the First Unitarian Church of Kennebunk, Maine, before settling at their ranch in Kaycee, Wyoming, in 1947. Gordon’s paternal grandmother was the philanthropist Louise Ayer Hatheway. His paternal great-grandfather was the industrialist and mill magnate Frederick Ayer, founder of the American Woolen Company, and younger brother of the patent medicine tycoon James Cook Ayer, both of Lowell, Massachusetts. He is a nep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casper College
Casper College is a public community college in Casper, Wyoming. It is one of the largest and most comprehensive community colleges in the region. Established in 1945 as Wyoming's first junior college and initially located on the third floor of Natrona County High School, Casper College moved to its current site 10 years later. Currently the campus consists of 28 buildings on more than 200 acres. The grounds are distinctive, with terraces that surround the modern buildings. It currently enrolls 4,023 students. There are approximately 250 faculty. The Tate Geological Museum is located on the south end of the campus. Academics Casper College offers more than 50 academic majors and 30 technical and career field options. The academic side of the college is organized into five different Schools: Business and Industry, Fine Arts and Humanities, Health Science, Science, Social and Behavioral Science. Athletics Casper College participates in the National Junior College Athletic Asso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casper, Wyoming
Casper is a city in, and the county seat of, Natrona County, Wyoming, United States. Casper is the second-largest city in the state, with the population at 59,038 as of the 2020 census. Only Cheyenne, the state capital, is larger. Casper is nicknamed "The Oil City" and has a long history of oil boomtown and cowboy culture, dating back to the development of the nearby Salt Creek Oil Field. Casper is located in east central Wyoming. History The city was established east of the former site of Fort Caspar, which was built during the mid-19th century mass migration of land seekers along the Oregon, California and Mormon trails. The area was the location of several ferries that offered passage across the North Platte River in the early 1840s. In 1859, Louis Guinard built a bridge and trading post near the original ferry locations. The government soon posted a military garrison nearby to protect telegraph and mail service. It was under the command of Lieutenant Colonel William O. Col ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Meyer (Wyoming Politician)
Joseph Brown Meyer (April 22, 1941 – October 6, 2012) was an American politician from the U.S. state of Wyoming. Background Meyer was born in 1941 in Casper, Wyoming. He graduated from Natrona County High School and was educated at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, from which he earned his undergraduate degree and then his J.D. He began his career as the Fremont County attorney before going into the private practice of law. Political career In 1971, Meyer returned to public service when he was selected to serve as the first assistant director of the Legislative Service Office in Cheyenne during the administration of Governor Stanley K. Hathaway. Meyer worked with lawmakers to prepare hundreds of bills, many of which became and remain state law. Meyer remained with the legislative office until he was appointed attorney general in 1987 by Democratic Governor Mike Sullivan. Sullivan expressed apprehension when he approached the Republican Meyer to be his attorney general ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keith Goodenough
Keith B. Goodenough (born July 22, 1956) is an American politician who served as a member of the Casper, Wyoming, City Council from 2006 to 2014. He previously served as a Democrat in the Wyoming Senate from 1995 to 2005 and in the Wyoming House of Representatives from 1989 to 1993. In 2008, he ran for the U.S. Senate, but lost in the Democratic primary. Since then, he launched two unsuccessful campaigns for the Natrona County Commission as an independent candidate in 2012 and 2014. Background Goodenough graduated from Kelly Walsh High School in Casper, Wyoming, in 1974. After graduation, he attended Casper College, and transferred to the University of Montana, where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in forestry in 1978. After graduating from college, he served in the Peace Corps in Guatemala, where he was stationed in San Juan Chamelco. Goodenough's service in Guatemala overlapped with the contentious 1982 presidential election, and Peace Corps volunteers were given the o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dave Freudenthal
David Duane Freudenthal (born October 12, 1950) is an American attorney, economist, and politician who served as the 31st Governor of Wyoming from 2003 to 2011. Freudenthal previously was the United States Attorney for the District of Wyoming from 1994 to 2001. , he is the most recent Democrat to hold statewide office in Wyoming. Biography Education and career Dave Freudenthal was born in Thermopolis, the seat of Hot Springs County in north central Wyoming, the seventh of eight children; he grew up on a farm north of town. He graduated in 1973 from Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts, with a bachelor's degree in economics. After graduating he joined the Department of Economic Planning and Development as an economist and later became the state planning director for Governor Edgar Herschler. Freudenthal received his J.D. degree from the University of Wyoming College of Law in 1980 and went into private practice. After retiring as governor, Freudenthal briefly worked at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casper Star-Tribune
The ''Casper Star-Tribune'' is a newspaper published in Casper, Wyoming, with statewide influence and readership. It is Wyoming's largest print newspaper, with a daily circulation of 23,760 and a Sunday circulation of 21,041. The ''Star-Tribune'' covers local and state news. Its website, Trib.com, includes articles from the print paper, online updates, video and other multimedia content. In 2002, the newspaper was acquired by Lee Enterprises. History The origins of the ''Casper Star-Tribune'' date to 1891, when the weekly Natrona Tribune began publishing under the ownership of 20 men organized as the Republican Publishing Co. In 1897, A.J. Mokler acquired the newspaper and changed its name to the ''Natrona County Tribune''. Mokler sold the Tribune in 1914 to J.E. Hanway and Associates and two years later Hanway produced the first edition of the ''Casper Daily Tribune'', which quickly grew to become the largest newspaper in Wyoming by circulation. The weekly ''Natrona County Tri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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