51.   The drive was jump-started last week when Gov. George F. Allen of Virginia, a Republican, become the first governor to sign on.

52.   The first GOP governor of Texas since Reconstruction counts himself as a major fan of the second GOP governor of Texas since Reconstruction.

53.   The first female governor of New Jersey who was once considered a possible vice presidential running mate, Whitman will resign her elected office to join the new administration.

54.   The governor first proposed in March the politically pleasing idea of ending school property taxes, which make up over half of the average property tax bill.

55.   The first Democratic governor of the state since Brown, Gray Davis, was inaugurated, also on Monday, in Sacramento.

56.   The landslide made Bush the first Texas governor elected to consecutive four-year terms.

57.   They helped make Democrat Gary Locke of Washington the first Chinese American governor in the nation.

58.   They said lawmakers might be delaying more this year after making significant moves last year, pushed by Pataki, the first Republican governor in nearly a generation.

59.   To be fair, Whitman was the first New Jersey governor to acknowledge that state troopers had engaged in systematic racial profiling.

60.   To be sure, Pataki would not be the first governor to treat a transit fare increase like radioactive waste because such proposals always incite storms of protest.