Lieutenant Governors of Virginia - Douglas Wilder, Tim Kaine, Chuck Robb, John H. Hager, Mills E. Godwin, Jr., Don Beyer, Bill Bolling (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 102. Not illustrated. Chapters: Douglas Wilder, Tim Kaine, Chuck Robb, John H. Hager, Mills E. Godwin, Jr., Don Beyer, Bill Bolling, James Hoge Tyler, James A. Walker, Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, Henry Howell, William M. Tuck, John N. Dalton, J. Sargeant Reynolds, John F. Lewis, Leopold Copeland Parker Cowper, Lewis Preston Collins Ii, Samuel Price, Shelton Leake, Robert Craig Kent, Joseph Edward Willard, Edward Echols, Fred G. Pollard, James H. Price, Robert Latane Montague, Richard Joseph Davis. Excerpt: Timothy Michael "Tim" Kaine (born February 26, 1958) was the 70th Governor of Virginia from 2006 to 2010, and is the current chairman of the Democratic National Committee. He was elected governor in 2005, after serving as Lieutenant Governor of Virginia and Mayor of Richmond, Virginia. As governor, he was a member of the National Governors Association, the Southern Governors' Association, and the Democratic Governors Association. Before entering into Virginia politics, Kaine was a lawyer in Richmond, Virginia, and worked with the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) as a Catholic missionary in Honduras. Kaine endorsed the Democratic nominee, now President Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election and was considered a possible choice to be Obama's running mate, but was not ultimately chosen. Virginia State law does not allow the governor to succeed himself; therefore Governor Kaine was not permitted to run for re-election after his first term in office. Kaine was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, to Mary Kathleen (nee Burns) and Albert A. Kaine, a welder and the owner of a small iron-working shop. Kaine grew up in the Kansas City area and graduated from Rockhurst High School in Kansas City, Missouri. Kaine graduated from the University of Missouri with a B.A. in economics in 1979. He attended Harvard Law School, taking a year-l...