The Potosi Correctional Center, which opened in 1989, housed Missouri's death row and the state's executions were handled at the prison until 2005.

Jiang Zemin retired from his post as Chairman of the party's Central Military Commission in September 2004 to Hu Jintao, and from the state's in March 2005, solidifying Hu's position as paramount leader.

In the 2005 census, the population of the city of Gómez Palacio was 239, 842 people, making it the state's second-largest community, and the entire municipality's ( including the city ) population was 304, 515.

The state's share of the Brazilian economy is 1. 7 % ( 2005 ).

In 2005, New Hampshire launched the Daniel Webster Scholar Honors Program, an alternative bar certification program, at the state's only law school, the University of New Hampshire School of Law ( then known as Franklin Pierce Law Center ).

Currently, the governor is Democrat John Lynch from Hopkinton, who has served since 2005 and is the state's eightieth governor.

In May 2005, under duress from protesters, the Bolivian congress enacted a new hydrocarbons law, increasing the state's royalties from natural gas exploitation.

Later in 2005, Attorney General Greg Stumbo, the state's highest-ranking Democrat, launched an investigation into whether the Fletcher administration's hiring practices violated the state's merit system.

As Controller, Westly opposed Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's plan to change Proposition 98, which requires a certain amount of the state's budget to go towards funding public education and community colleges, and in 2005, he created a tax amnesty plan that allowed individuals and corporations who owed back taxes to prevent facing criminal charges and increased penalties if they would immediately pay their back taxes.

Troxler was sworn in as North Carolina Agriculture Commissioner on February 8, 2005, a month after the rest of the Council of State, becoming the first Republican Agriculture Commissioner in the state's history.

** 2nd class ( 1 September 2005 )-for his great personal contribution to the state's economic policy, and many years of honest work

There were 65, 606 inhabitants in the city as of the 2005 census, making it the state's sixth-largest community.

In October 2005, Gregoire sent a letter to the state's Gambling Commission recommending that it renegotiate a compact with the Spokane Native American tribe it had submitted for approval.

The boys ' basketball team won the 2005 and 2006 Division 1 State Championships, and are considered one of the state's top basketball programs.

The state's efforts towards high speed rail between 2000 and 2005 put Florida ahead of the field in terms of the level of planning already completed, and this proved to be a major factor in winning the funds.

Some argued that Padgett was subject to another law — a provision put into the state's budget bill in 2005 by Republicans.

In addition, his appreciation for music is such that he is known as the “ Senator for Texas Music ” because of legislation authored such as Senate Resolution 292, which made March 3, 2005 “ Bob Wills Day ” at the Texas Capitol, and Senate Bill 1100 which would have created the " Texas Music History Tour " to promote Texas Tourism and the state's rich musical heritage.

In December 2005 and April 2006, he successfully argued before the Supreme Court of the United States in Kansas v. Marsh, wherein the Court reversed a ruling made by the Kansas Supreme Court that the state's death penalty was unconstitutional.

In early 2005, Representative Toby Nixon of the state's 45th district introduced a proposal that would clear-up the process of what residents must do to create a new county.

This system is still in use at all of the state's thoroughbred tracks today, although a slight modification in the actual percentages ( resulting in the second-place share being increased at the expense of the third and / or fourth ) was made in 2005.

The FIU College of Law has consistently ranked 1st in the state of Florida with the state's highest bar-passing rates ( 2005, 2007, 2009 and 2011 ), and 1st in Florida in the Multistate Professional Responsibility Exam at 96 % in 2007.

The FIU College of Law has ranked 1st in the state of Florida with the state's highest bar-passing rates ( 2005, 2007, 2009 and 2011 ), and 1st in Florida in the Multistate Professional Responsibility Exam at 96 % in 2007.

On January 31, 2005, she recorded her 500th career victory, becoming the only girls ' coach in the state's history to do so.

In 1979, during the early stages of Thompson's term and immediately in the aftermath of the largest vote for a gubernatorial candidate in the state's history, he called for the human rights reorganization.

In the 1991 Louisiana gubernatorial election, controversial white supremacist David Duke, running as a Republican, unexpectedly made his way to second place in the state's jungle primary.

The only exception to the state's gubernatorial declaration requirement occurs when an emergency and / or disaster takes place on federal property or to a federal asset, for example, the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, or the Space Shuttle Columbia in the 2003 return-flight disaster.

However, this performance did not prove enough to offset a backlash against the state's high sales and property tax rates, which turned out to be the predominant issue in the 1978 gubernatorial campaign.

Hendricks ran for governor again in 1868, but he lost to Conrad Baker by 961 votes in the state's closest gubernatorial election.

The county regularly reject Democrats in gubernatorial and senatorial races, usually by giving the Republican candidate some the state's highest percentage results.

A founder and chair of the Minnesota Reform Party ( the predecessor of the Independence Party of Minnesota ), he chaired Jesse Ventura's successful 1998 gubernatorial campaign ; Ventura subsequently appointed him director of the state's Office of Strategic and Long Range Planning.

During his gubernatorial tenure, he cut the state's debt in half, and advocated for the conservation of forests.

The idea of removing the gubernatorial term limit was first proposed in the 1850 constitutional convention, but was vigorously opposed by some of the state's best known statesmen of the day, including Archibald Dixon, Garrett Davis, Benjamin Hardin, and Charles A. Wickliffe.

The state's first governor's mansion was constructed during the gubernatorial tenure of James Garrard.

As Republican strength grew in North Carolina in the 1950s and 1960s the state's gubernatorial elections became increasingly competitive, and in 1972 James Holshouser became the state's first Republican governor of the twentieth century.

He was easily reelected in 1982 with 70. 9 % of the vote, the highest percentage won by a gubernatorial candidate in the state's history.

Democratic gubernatorial nominee Ruby Laffoon also owed his selection to the machinations of the state's political bosses, notably his uncle, Congressman Polk Laffoon.

In the general election, he defeated Republican Edwin R. Denney by a vote of 451, 647 to 322, 671, the largest margin of victory for a gubernatorial candidate to that point in the state's history.

Riley did not run for re-election to the House in November 2002 ( as a supporter of term limits, he imposed a three-term limit on himself ), instead running for Governor of Alabama and defeating the Democratic incumbent by approximately 3, 000 votes-the narrowest margin in the state's history for a gubernatorial race.

Andrus lost his first gubernatorial election in 1966, but won four ( 1970, 1974, 1986, 1990 ), and served more years as Governor of Idaho than anyone else in the state's history.

He served as the state's comptroller and as a member of the North Carolina Senate between his two gubernatorial terms.

Most Whigs opposed the calling of a constitutional convention because it would necessarily involve reapportionment of the state's legislative districts and threaten Whig dominance in the General Assembly ; nevertheless, Crittenden belatedly supported the call for a convention during his 1848 gubernatorial campaign.

Jackson again supported Roane in the state's gubernatorial election in 1805, but Sevier won with nearly two-thirds of the vote.

In 1962, the Republican Party, which had lost the two previous gubernatorial elections and seen the state's electoral votes go Democratic in the 1960 presidential election, became convinced that a moderate such as Bill Scranton would have enough bipartisan appeal to revitalize the party.

In 1996, it featured exclusive interviews with the state's gubernatorial candidates and first-hand coverage of the national election.

In 1959, he defeated challenger John A. Burns to win the new state's first gubernatorial election.

Carroll maintained that the gubernatorial term limit in the state's original constitution no longer applied because the 1834 constitution replaced the original constitution, but Cannon argued that the 1834 constitution was a revision rather than a replacement for the original constitution.