1.   Voinovich set the stage by being the first governor to endorse Dole nearly one year ago.

2.   An early supporter of the sodomy statute was John Winthrop, the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

3.   And it was here, some time later, that it named Peter Stuyvesant the first governor of its short-lived possessions along the Hudson.

4.   And if the apparently predestined George W. Bush is successful, he will be the first sitting governor to become president since McKinley.

5.   A few days later, Ryan declared a halt to executions in Illinois, making him the first governor to impose such a moratorium.

6.   Acting Governor Jane Swift delivered twin girls by caesarean section Tuesday night, becoming the first governor to give birth while in office.

7.   After he won, Hughes stayed as his press secretary, helping him become the first governor to win back-to-back terms in more than a century.

8.   Burga said Taft was the first Republican governor who has agreed to address a legislative meeting of the state labor group.

9.   Bush is the first Texas governor to win re-election to consecutive four-year terms.

10.   But Bush has contended that he is the first governor even to try to bring the grandfathered plants into compliance.