Nancy Hollister

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Nancy Hollister
Nancy Hollister (Ohio governor).jpg
Member of the Ohio House of Representatives
from the 96th district
In office
January 5, 1999 – December 31, 2004
Preceded byTom Johnson
Succeeded byCharlie Wilson
66th Governor of Ohio
In office
December 31, 1998 – January 11, 1999
Preceded byGeorge Voinovich
Succeeded byBob Taft
60th Lieutenant Governor of Ohio
In office
January 9, 1995 – December 31, 1998
GovernorGeorge Voinovich
Preceded byMike DeWine
Succeeded byMaureen O'Connor
Personal details
Born (1949-05-22) May 22, 1949 (age 72)
Marietta, Ohio, U.S.
Political partyRepublican
Spouse(s)Jeff Hollister[1]
EducationKent State University (BA)

Nancy Putnam Hollister (born May 22, 1949) is an American politician from the U.S. state of Ohio. Hollister was the first and, to date, only female Governor of Ohio, serving briefly from December 1998 to January 1999. She attended Kent State University, and upon leaving college she became a housewife. She began her political career in the 1980s. She is a member of the Republican Party.

Political career (1980–1990)[]

Nancy Hollister first entered public office when she was elected to the Marietta City Council in 1980. Hollister would serve on city council until being elected Mayor of Marietta in 1984. As Mayor, Hollister worked to attract new businesses to the area, promote tourism, and secured funding for a new bridge across the Ohio River.[2]

Political career (1991–1994)[]

Since Hollister was a mayor in Southeastern Ohio, Governor Voinovich appointed Nancy Hollister as director of the Governor's Office of Appalachia. In this position, Hollister would advise the Governor on how to improve the economy, and life, for twenty-nine counties.

Lieutenant governor[]

Hollister was elected Ohio's 60th Lieutenant Governor in 1994 to replace incumbent lieutenant governor Mike DeWine, who was elected to the U.S. Senate. Hollister would oversee several State and Local Government Commissions. These included the Governor's Office of Appalachia, the Governor's Workforce Development Board, the Ohio Department of Agriculture, the Ohio Bureau of Employment Services, the Ohio School-to-Work Initiative, the Office of Housing and Community Partnership, the Ohio Coal Development Office, and the Ohio Farmland Preservation Task Force.[2]

Governor of Ohio[]

On November 3, 1998, as part of that year's midterm election, Governor George Voinovich was elected to the United States Senate, and Bob Taft was elected to the governorship. On the same day, Hollister ran for a seat in the United States House of Representatives, having defeated former Rep. Frank Cremeans for the Republican nomination, but she lost to incumbent Democrat Ted Strickland (who would later succeed Taft as governor).

Voinovich resigned as governor on December 31, 1998 (so he could be sworn into the Senate three days later), and with that, Hollister became governor. Hollister became Ohio's first and to date only female governor. She only served 11 days in office - which would also make her Ohio's shortest-serving governor - as she was essentially finishing out Voinovich's term. She was succeeded by Taft, whose term officially began on January 11, 1999.

Politics (2000–present)[]

Upon leaving the Governor's office, Hollister was appointed to the Ohio House of Representatives, representing the 93rd district, in 1999. She ran for and was elected to the seat in 2000 and 2002. In her final run for office to date, Hollister was defeated by Jennifer Garrison in 2004.

A key issue in the campaign was Hollister's opposition to a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage. Garrison – the Democrat – ran to the ideological right of Hollister on the same-sex marriage ban which passed during the same 2004 election 61.71% to 38.29%.

She served on the board of trustees of the Ohio History Connection between 2011 and 2016.[3]

As of Oct 2020 she is an ad-hoc board member of the Friends of the Museums, which manages the Campus Martius Museum and Ohio River Museum in Marietta.[4]

In May 2016, she was appointed by Gov. John Kasich to fill a vacancy on the state Board of Education.[5]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ http://www.nga.org/cms/home/governors/past-governors-bios/page_ohio/col2-content/main-content-list/title_hollister_nancy.default.html
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b Nancy P. Hollister at Ohio History Central
  3. ^ "Ohio History Connection update Jul 2016".
  4. ^ "About Us". Marietta Museums. Retrieved 2020-10-14.
  5. ^ Candisky, Catherine (May 4, 2016). "Ohio's first female governor appointed to state Board of Education". The Columbus Dispatch.

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Political offices
Preceded by
Mike DeWine 		Lieutenant Governor of Ohio
1995–1998 		Succeeded by
Maureen O'Connor
Preceded by
George Voinovich 		Governor of Ohio
1998–1999 		Succeeded by
Bob Taft
Ohio House of Representatives
Preceded by
Tom Johnson 		Member of the Ohio House of Representatives
from the 96th district
1999–2004 		Succeeded by
Charlie Wilson
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