But there has never been a woman governor before.
"Why the hell would a woman governor appoint a loser like him?"
They were asked what they thought of their state having a woman governor.
Connecticut, and later Washington, was the first state to elect a woman governor in her own right.
"It is just so inspiring to have a woman governor," she said.
"I do understand what it means to be the first woman governor," she told her cheering supporters this morning.
He also observed that the voters of Arizona weren't ready for a woman governor in 1950 and may have been right.
"The time has come, I believe, to elect a woman governor," she said.
The state was the first to grant women the right to vote and to elect a woman governor.
She had been the first woman governor of the school.
