Democrat Ella Grasso was inaugurated in January 1975, becoming the first woman to serve as governor of Connecticut and the first woman to hold a state governorship. Ms. Grasso was the Secretary of State for Connecticut for three terms and was elected to the U.S. Congress in 1970 and 1972. Ella Grasso never lost an election in her twenty-eight years as a public official.
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