elected
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Senate, making him the first out gay man elected to the chamber.
From Salon ● Nov. 4, 2026
Bottoms becomes the first black woman elected to be governor of Georgia.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026
Raman, first elected to the council in 2020, joined the race in February, launching a challenge against someone she had publicly endorsed just a few weeks earlier.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026
In the southern state of Georgia, Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms won the race for governor, making her the first Black woman elected to the top office in any US state.
From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2026
In the fall of 1862, without any campaigning on his part, Garfield was elected.
From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow
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