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From New Year’s day to January 15 inaugural ceremonies were to be consummated in 33 state capitols. Vermont. North-and-south across Vermont run the Green mountains, dividing the state like a spinal column. Vermont governors are usually selected according to a “rule of the mountain,” which provides that the western and eastern halves shall alternate in supplying the governor. This oldtime “mountain rule” was broken last fall when Vermont voters re-elected Governor John W. Weeks. Lieutenant Governor S. Holliston Jackson, “logical” candidate under the mountain rule, was drowned when Vermont was flooded (TIME, Nov. 14, 1927). Colorado. “Too much talking has ruined politicians,” says Colorado’s newly-elected Governor William H. Adams. During his campaign he made one speech three minutes long and issued one statement. For 47 years an officeholder, he has never been defeated, never driven an automobile, never played golf. A Democrat, he carried Colorado by 99,000 votes despite a Hoover majority of 100,000\. Illinois. Louis Emmerson, Illinois’ new Governor, is a patient, Saturnine gentleman whom the newspapers once named “lopeared Lou.” He served in the Cabinet of discredited Governor Len Small without losing caste. Indiana. Harry G. Leslie, new Governor of Indiana, has never been in jail, a distinction which neither of Indiana’s last two Republican Governors can unblushingly boast. Iowa. Re-elected Governor John Hammill of Iowa helped keep supposedly embattled farmers in line for President-Elect Hoover. Having talked with Nominee Hoover on the latter’s journey west. Governor Hammill took airplane, flew to Des Moines, told Iowa’s Legislature that Mr. Hoover would certainly solve the farm problem (TIME, July 30). Kansas. Newly-elected Governor Clyde M. Reed belongs to the anti-Curtis faction in Kansas politics. Minnesota. Styled the “Coolidge of Minnesota” because of his economies and tax reform, re-elected Governor Theodore Christianson, Republican, is a close friend of Andrew Volstead. Texas. Red haired, dry-minded re-elected Governor Dan Moody of Texas, whose state voted for Hoover, made a post-election statement blaming the “alcoholism” of Democratic National Chairman John J. Raskob. Connecticut. Re-elected Governor John Trumbull, Republican, of Connecticut, will soon be father-in-law of John Coolidge. He is one of the flying Governors (see Iowa, Wisconsin). South Dakota. A cautious wheatlander, Governor William J. Bulow, Democrat, of South Dakota, was elected. He first saw the Atlantic ocean in 1927, observed: “It certainly looks very wet.” Wisconsin. Innumerable U. S. magazine readers have seen advertisements for colored sinks, for “electric” sinks, for other plumbing fixtures manufactured by “Kohler of Kohler.” The Kohler in question is Walter Jodok Kohler of Kohler, Wis., newly-elected Governor of Wisconsin. Gov. Kohler also keeps horses, flys an airplane. His nomination was notable in that he defeated Representative Joseph Beck, candidate of the progressive Republicans, headed by Robert La Follette Jr. Arkansas. Harvey V. Parnell, Democrat, becomes chief executive of a state which recently passed a law forbidding discussion or teaching of the theory of evolution in the public schools. Strict interpretation would prohibit the Encyclopedia Britannica and any dictionary which described the awful theory. Arizona. New-elected Governor John C. Phillips has the Hoover landslide to thank for helping him beat out George Wylie Paul Hunt, multiterm Democrat. New York. Winning against Candidate Ottinger while Candidate Smith was losing to Candidate Hoover, newly-elected Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt emerged as New York’s chief Democrat, perhaps the chief U. S. Democrat. Mr. Roosevelt’s title to “chief U. S. Democrat,” however, was, last week, less clear than it had appeared immediately after the election. Following his defeat for the presidency, Candidate Smith had said emphatically “I am through with public life.” But at a farewell dinner in Albany, last week, the outgoing Governor said: “I will never be out of politics as long as I live. … I shall … be ready and eager to come up here and participate in any civic duty that presents itself. . . .” Indeed, Mr. Smith refused to admit that the dinner given by the Albany Chamber of Commerce could probably be called a “farewell” occasion. “We talked all that out, your chairman and I,” said he, “and put the kibosh on that farewell stuff very rapidly.” He described the position of New York’s Governor as “most difficult,” next to the Presidency. “You’ve always got it with you” he said. “It’s like a pin in your sock. It won’t kill you but it’s irritating while it’s there.” Concerning the Presidential election he said: “I haven’t a single regret. . . .When I say ‘Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven,’ I mean it. … What happened was for the best.” Whether or not Mr. Smith plans to continue leading the Democracy, he found no competitive note in Franklin Roosevelt’s inaugural address. After eulogizing his friend and predecessor, Governor Roosevelt discussed purely state problems, drew dotted lines indicating extensions of Smith policies. Other Governors to be installed: State Governor Party Del. C. Douglas Buck R. (new) Fl. Doyle A. Carlton D. (new) Idaho F. C. Baldridge R. (reelected) Me. Wm. Tudor Gardiner R. (new) Mass. Frank G. Allen R. (new) Mich. Fred W. Green R. (reelected) Mo. Henry S. Caulfield R. (new) Mont. J. E. Erickson D. (reelected) Neb. Arthur E. Weaver R. (new) N. H. Charles W. Tobey R. (new) N. J. Morgan F. Larson R. (new) N. M. Richard C. Dillon R. (new) N. C. Oliver Max Gardner D. (new) N. D. George F. Shafter R. (new) Ohio Myers Cooper R. (new) R. I. Norman S. Case R. (new) Tenn. Henry H. Horton D. (new) Utah George H. Durn D. (reelected) Wash. Roland H. Hartley R. (reelected) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6862672/national-affairs-governors/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6862672/national-affairs-governors/"},"headline":"National Affairs: Governors","datePublished":"1929-01-07T05:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-13T18:16:28.115Z","description":"More than two thirds of the states made ready to reinstate their Governors or to inaugurate new ones. 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