Nancy Hollister

Nancy Hollister
Portrait as Lt. Governor
66th Governor of Ohio
In office December 31, 1998 – January 11, 1999
Lieutenant	none
Preceded by	George Voinovich
Succeeded by	Bob Taft
60th Lieutenant Governor of Ohio
In office 1995–1998
Governor	George Voinovich
Preceded by	Mike DeWine
Succeeded by	Maureen O'Connor
Member of the Ohio House of Representatives from the 96th district
In office January 5, 1999-December 31, 2004
Preceded by	Tom Johnson
Succeeded by	Jennifer Garrison
Mayor of Marietta, Ohio
In office 1984–1991
Marietta City Council
In office 1980–1984
Personal details
Born	May 22, 1949 (1949-05-22) (age 62) Marietta, Ohio
Political party	Republican
Profession	Politician

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

Political Career (1980-1990)

Nancy Hollister first entered public office when she was elected to the Marietta City Council in 1980.^[1] 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

In November 1998 as part of the that year's midterms, Governor George Voinovich was elected to the United States Senate. Voinovich resigned as Governor on December 31, 1998, and with that, Hollister became Governor. Hollister became Ohio's first and to date only woman to serve as Governor. She only served 11 days in office, making her Ohio's shortest-serving Governor (as she was merely finishing out the last few days of Voinovich's term). She was succeeded by Bob Taft, who was elected Governor during the same election cycle and was waiting to be sworn in on January 11, 1999.

Hollister later ran for a seat in the United States House of Representatives, defeating former Rep. Frank Cremeans for the Republican nomination, but she lost to Democrat (and, coincidentally, future Governor) Ted Strickland. Cremeans had defeated the incumbent Strickland in 1994 but lost to him in 1996.

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. Ironically, 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%.

See also

Biography portal

• Election Results, U.S. Representative from Ohio, 6th District
• Election Results, Ohio Lieutenant Governor
• Hollister

References

1. ^ http://www.nndb.com/people/104/000120741/
2. ^ ^{a b} http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=1758

• http://www.nndb.com/people/104/000120741/
• http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=1758

External links

• Profile on the Ohio Ladies Gallery website

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

Persondata
Name	Hollister, Nancy P.
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	May 22, 1949
Place of birth	Marietta, Ohio
Date of death
Place of death