In 2012 the count was 29.
I've been researching the same question since November elections and found it on USA Today in a December 8 article. It was hard to find with all the partisan spin. There are currently in 2010, 26 democrats and 24 republicans. In 2011, post elections, There will be a total of 29 republican and 20 democrat and 1 independent governor.
As of 11/4/09, there are 23.
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Republican Governors Association was created in 1963.
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There are currently in December 2010, 26 democratic and 24 republican governors. Post election, in 2011 there will be 29 republican, 20 democrat and 1 independent governor.
obama, micheal jackson, and jack sperrow
Rufus Bullock, Benjamin Conley and Sonny Perdue are the only 3 Republican Governors elected in the State of Georgia.
about 46 governors
They were both Republican state governors in the 1870's.
There have been Spanish Governors, Mexican Governors, US Military Governors, US Territorial Governors and US State Governors, There have been Elected Governors, Appointed Governors, Temporary Governors, Cruel Governors, Corrupt Governors, Republican Governors, Democratic Governors, Famous Governors and Infamous Governors, Good and Bad Governors. The severed head of at least one Governor was once displayed in the Plaza in front of the Palace of the Governors. The long list covering 400 years of leadership in what is now the State of New Mexico begins with Don Juan de Onate and ends in 2010 with Bill Richardson and to date includes no women. Keep in mind as you fill in the gap between these two that for 12 years during the Pueblo Revolt, the office existed but was held by people who never set foot in New Mexico.
The 11th elected governor of the state was Kinsley Bingham, who served from 1855 to 1859. He was the first Republican. However, the 2nd and 3rd governors had been Whigs.
That is a good question, because Mary Fallin, the Republican governor of Oklahoma, was a strong supporter of Mitt Romney, and one of Mr. Romney's most popular achievements when he was governor of Massachusetts was Romney-Care, a health care plan almost identical to Mr. Obama's. Given her current opposition, and that of other Republican governors, we can only assume it's based on politics-- many Republican governors automatically oppose anything that a Democrat, and especially Barack Obama, proposes.
Northern state governors were to hold a conference after Antietam to discuss the operation of the US Civil War and possible make recommendations concerning it. General McClellan had strong support of Republican Governor Andrew Curtin and other conservative Republican state governors. McClellan also had support from War Democrats and Northern democratic newspapers. They as an example blocked motions by anti-McClellan governors to have the general replaced. There is no doubt that McClellan had a broad base of political support for a general. This would very unusual however, it seemed like everything in the war was in that state of affairs.
There are fifty governors -- one for each state.