QUESTIONS:
1. How many former governors are serving in President Bush's Cabinet?
2. Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean has just been elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Who was the last former governor to serve as full-time national chairman of either major party?
3. His election to the party position notwithstanding, many admirers of Howard Dean believe he will run for the Senate from Vermont if Independent Sen. James Jeffords steps down next year. Who was the last Democratic national chairman to leave the post and run for the U.S. Senate?
4. Who was the last former Republican national chairman to go on to win elective office?
5. Who was the Democratic national chairman to go on to run for President?
ANSWERS:
1. Two: Secretary of Agriculture Mike Johanns, who was governor of Nebraska, and Secretary of Health and Human Services Mike Leavitt, who was governor of Utah.
2. Marc Racicot, former governor of Montana, who was Republican national chairman from 2002-04.
3. James A. Farley, Democratic national chairman from 1932-40, who ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senator from New York in 1958.
4. Haley Barbour, chairman from 1993-97, who was elected governor of Mississippi in '03.
5. Sen. Henry M. Jackson of Washington state, DNC chairman from 1960-61, who sought the Democratic nomination for President in 1972 and '76.
