Richard A. Snelling
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Richard Arkwright Snelling (February 18, 1927 – August 13, 1991) was the Governor of Vermont from 1977 to 1985 and from January 10, 1991 until his death.
A member of the United States Republican Party, he served in the Vermont state legislature for six terms.
He was first elected governor in 1976 and was re-elected four times, but left office in January 1985, choosing not to run in 1984. He ran for the U.S. Senate in 1986 but lost to Patrick Leahy in a landslide. In 1990 he was once again elected governor, becoming the first Vermont governor to win five mandates. He died of a heart attack seven months after his final inauguration. The lieutenant governor, Democrat Howard Dean, was sworn in as governor.
His widow, Barbara Snelling (R), was elected lieutenant governor in 1992 and served two terms until suffering a cerebral hemorrhage in 1996 while campaigning for governor. She was elected to the Vermont State Senate in 1998, where she served until she retired in 2002.
Governor Snelling's daughter, Diane Snelling (R), succeeded her mother as a state senator in 2002 and has been elected twice since then.
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