Follow the Leader

Christine Todd Whitman

Posted December 19, 2007 by Terry Golway

She came from nowhere to nearly capture Bill Bradley’s U.S. Senate seat in 1990, a development that helped persuade the former Princeton basketball star not to seek a fourth term in 1996. Whitman then took on Jim Florio in 1993, becoming the first woman governor in state history and defeating an incumbent—no small achievement—in the process.

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