A very happy WEDNESDAY to all!

On this day in 1924, Nellie Tayloe Ross was elected governor of Wyoming – the first woman elected as governor of a U.S. state. She was also first female director of the United States Mint from 1933 to 1953. She was a Democrat and supported Prohibition. After her retirement, Ross contributed articles to various women’s magazines and traveled extensively. She made her last trip to Wyoming in 1972 at the age of 96. Five years later, she died in Washington, D.C., at the age of 101. At the time of her death, she was the oldest ex-governor in the United States. She is interred in the family plot in Lakeview Cemetery in Cheyenne.