41.   Republican Claude Kirk of West Palm Beach was the first governor to run for re-election.

42.   She was the Republican leader in Mississippi and helped mastermind the election of the first Republican governor in that state in this century.

43.   She was the first female governor in the history of New Jersey.

44.   Should he win, McCall would become the first nonwhite governor of New York.

45.   Straphangers are not the only New Yorkers who feel they do not get a fair shake from the first elected governor in decades without roots in the five boroughs.

46.   Swift said she was aware of the attention on her as the first sitting governor to give birth.

47.   Swift will be the first governor to give birth while in office.

48.   Symington is believed to be the first governor in the United States to declare bankruptcy in office.

49.   Ted Agnew was the first former governor to have his secret local past catch up with his exalted national present.

50.   The Bradley campaign also announced on Tuesday that Gov. John Kitzhaber of Oregon will on Wednesday become the first sitting governor to endorse Bradley.