Mills Godwin
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Mills Edwin Godwin Jr. was an American politician who was the 60th and 62nd governor of Virginia for two non-consecutive terms, from 1966 to 1970 and from 1974 to 1978. Godwin was the first person to
Godwin in 1974
Byrd machine
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The Byrd machine, or Byrd Organization, was a political machine of the Democratic Party led by former Governor and U.S. Senator Harry F. Byrd that dominated Virginia politics for much of the 20th cent
Mills Godwin
…a Democrat and a Republican. He is to date the last Virginia governor to serve two terms. He was the last Virginia governor elected as a part of the Byrd Machine, the conservative Democratic establishment that dominated the state's politics for over three decades. He was succeeded by Linwood Holton, the first…
Harry F. Byrd Sr. in the 1930s