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November 5, 2019: Forty-five (45) years ago today, Ella Grasso was
elected Governor of Connecticut. She was the first woman elected
governor in her own right. Earlier female governors had been related
to a previous male governor.[1]
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That election in 1974 capped a 22-year career in politics where Grasso
had served as a state legislator, secretary of state, and a member of
Congress. Re-elected in 1978, Governor Grasso was diagnosed with
ovarian cancer during her second term.[2]
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She passed away in 1981 and posthumously received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom from President Ronald Reagan.[2]
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