Ron Desantis is a Republican politician who became the United
States Representative for Florida’s 6th congressional district in
2013. He has served under the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Committee on the Judiciary, and the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. In 2019, he became Florida’s 46th governor.

He was captain of the varsity baseball team in his senior year at 
Yale University, where he graduated magna cum laude with a B.A.
in History in 2001.

In 2007 he was assigned to SEAL Team One and deployed to Iraq
with the troop surge as the Legal Advisor to the SEAL Commander, Special Operations Task Force-West in Fallujah, and was later
awarded the Bronze Star Medal and the Iraq Campaign Medal for
his service.
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SALEM, Ore. — Gov. Tina Kotek has awarded the Law
Enforcement Medal of Ultimate Sacrifice to fallen Nyssa
police officer Cpl. Joseph Johnson.

The award will be presented to Johnson’s family at his
memorial service today.

Johnson was shot and killed while on patrol last Saturday
night in the eastern Oregon town of Nyssa.

Gov. Tina Kotek

Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger is an Austrian-American actor, film producer, businessman, former bodybuilder and politician who
served as the 38th governor of California between 2003 and 2011.

As of 2022, he is the most recent Republican governor of California.

Time magazine named Schwarzenegger one of the 100 most
influential people in the world in 2004 and 2007. 

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Carol Elizabeth Moseley Braun (Moseley-Braun)

Lawrence Douglas Wilder will be 89 on January 17.           

Douglas Wilder, the first African American to be elected
governor of an American state, took office as Governor
of Virginia on January 13, 1990.He broke a number of
color barriers in Virginia politics and remains an enduring
and controversial figure in the state’s political scene.

Born in 1931 in Church Hill, a poor and segregated
neighborhood of Richmond, Wilder is the grandson of
slaves and is named for Frederick Douglass. He grew
up in the Jim Crow era, graduating from Richmond’s
Virginia Union University in 1951. Wilder fought in the
Korean War, earning the Bronze Star, before studying
law at Howard University and returning to Richmond to
practice.

Wilder entered politics by way of a special election to the
State Senate in 1969, becoming the state’s first African
American state senator since Reconstruction.