Mary Fallin

Mary Copeland Fallin (born December 9, 1954 in Warrensburg , Missouri ) is an American politician ( Republican Party ). From 2007 to 2011 she represented the fifth constituency of the state of Oklahoma in the US House of Representatives ; She was Governor of Oklahoma from January 10, 2011 to January 14, 2019 .

Career

Fallin's father, Joseph Copeland, was the mayor of Tecumseh , a town in Pottawatomie County . Mary attended Oklahoma Baptist University from 1973 to 1975 , graduated from Oklahoma State University, and graduated from the University of Central Oklahoma at Edmond in 1981 . She worked as a division manager for a national hotel chain before going into politics.

Between 1990 and 1994, Mary Fallin was an MP in the Oklahoma House of Representatives , and from 1995 to 2007 she was lieutenant governor of that state, making it the first woman and first Republican to hold this office in Oklahoma. In this capacity she was also President of the State Senate .

In the 2006 congressional election, Fallin was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the fifth district of Oklahoma . There she replaced Ernest Istook on January 3, 2007 . Fallin was only the second Oklahoma woman on this body after Alice Mary Robertson , who was elected to the House of Representatives in 1920. After being re-elected in 2008, she remained in Congress until January 3, 2011 . There she was a member of the Armed Forces Committee, the Transport and Infrastructure Committee, and the Committee on Small Business . In each of these committees she was represented in a few sub-committees.

On November 2, 2010, Fallin was elected Governor of Oklahoma. She won against the Democratic candidate Jari Askins in the first election in Oklahoma, in which two top female candidates stood for election. On January 10, 2011, she succeeded Brad Henry in governorship, making her the first woman to head her state. Your lieutenant governor is Todd Lamb . In August 2013, she became the first female governor of Oklahoma to chair the National Governors Association . On November 4, 2014, she was confirmed in her post as governor of her state.

Mary Fallin is divorced from husband Joe and lives in Oklahoma City .

Positions

Number of executions per year during her tenure:

year	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015
number	2	6th	6th	3	1

On April 9, 2015, Oklahoma unanimously passed a law that allows execution to be carried out by gasifying nitrogen if lethal injection is banned or the chemicals required for it are not available. Killing by asphyxiation with nitrogen has not been tested in humans and is even banned in animals in various states.

Web links

Commons : Mary Fallin - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Mary Fallin in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
Mary Fallin in the nndb (English)
Mary Fallin in the NGA
Oklahoma Governors

Individual evidence

^ Mary Fallin wins governor race ( Memento November 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive ). In: The Oklahoma Daily of November 3, 2010 (English).
↑ New NGA Chair Announces Yearlong Initiative. ( Memento of August 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Article in the database of the National Governors Association of August 4, 2013.
^ The Associated Press / The Hamilton Spectator, April 9, 2015, accessed April 12, 2015

personal data
SURNAME	Fallin, Mary
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Copeland, Mary (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American politician
DATE OF BIRTH	December 9, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH	Warrensburg , Missouri

[1] Mary Fallin wins governor race ( Memento November 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive ). In: The Oklahoma Daily of November 3, 2010 (English).

[2] New NGA Chair Announces Yearlong Initiative. ( Memento of August 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Article in the database of the National Governors Association of August 4, 2013.

[N2-3] The Associated Press / The Hamilton Spectator, April 9, 2015, accessed April 12, 2015