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From Suffrage to the Senate America's Political Women: An Encyclopedia of Leaders, Causes & Issues

Hollister, Nancy Putnam (b. 1949)

Republican Nancy Hollister became governor of Ohio on December 31, 1998 and served until January 11, 1999. After Governor George Voinovich won election to the U.S. Senate, he resigned to prepare for his new office. Hollister, then Ohio’s lieutenant governor, assumed the office of governor until the newly elected governor took office.

Hollister began her political career in 1980 as a Marietta, Ohio City Council member, serving until 1984, when she won election as the city’s mayor, an office she held until 1991. She served as lieutenant governor from 1995 to 1998. She unsuccessfully ran for the U.S. House of Representatives in 1998.

In 1999, she was first appointed and later elected to the Ohio House of Representatives, serving there until 2005.

Born in Evansville, Indiana, Hollister attended Kent State University.

See also: Governors, Women

References: “Nancy Hollister,” http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=1758 (accessed July 23, 2012); The Post (Athens, Ohio) January 7, 1999; The Post (Athens, Ohio) January 7, 1999; Ohio History Central, http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=1758 (accessed March 13, 2012).

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