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Linda Lingle · Civil Rights & Human Rights

What

Linda Lingle was only the second Jewish woman to be elected a United States governor when she became governor of Hawaii in 2002.

When

4 June 1953

Biography

Linda Lingle is recognized among Jewish contributors to Civil Rights & Human Rights — Linda Lingle was only the second Jewish woman to be elected a United States governor when she became governor of Hawaii in 2002.

How & why

Linda Lingle was only the second Jewish woman to be elected a United States governor when she became governor of Hawaii in 2002. That is how the Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women, the scholarly reference published by the Jewish Women's Archive, opens its entry on her, written by Robert D. Johnston, and the entry is linked below.

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Source: Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women (Jewish Women's Archive) — Robert D. Johnston

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Linda Lingle was only the second Jewish woman to be elected a United States governor when she became governor of Hawaii in 2002.

1953

Source: Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women (Jewish Women's Archive) — Robert D. Johnston