January 16, 2011

In 1968, Virginia Johnson became the first woman in the history of the state to run for the office of governor. Running as a conservative Democrat, she finished second in the primary before losing to Marion Crank in a runoff election. Johnson, who never ran for another office, is shown here with her more famous arch-conservative husband, “Justice Jim” Johnson.

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