The city was originally known as Minner in honor of one of the original residing landowners.

Kaufman, appointed by Governor Ruth Ann Minner to fill the vacancy created by Joe Biden ( who resigned to become Vice President of the United States ), was not a candidate in the special election.

Minner was born Ruth Ann Coverdale, at Slaughter Neck in Cedar Creek Hundred, Sussex County, Delaware, near Milford.

In 1982 Minner was elected to the Delaware Senate and served there from the 1983 / 1984 session through the 1991 / 1992 session.

While in the State Senate Minner was noted for her sponsorship of the Delaware Land and Water Conservation Act, a key piece of legislation that protected 30, 000 acres ( 120 km² ) of land and created the Delaware Open Space Council.

Minner was elected Governor of Delaware in 2000.

Carney sought the Democratic nomination for the office of Governor in 2008, as incumbent Governor Ruth Ann Minner was constitutionally barred from seeking a third term.

* 1935 – Ruth Ann Minner, American politician, businesswoman and 72nd Governor of Delaware

* January 17 – Ruth Ann Minner, Governor of Delaware

Ruth Ann Minner ( born January 17, 1935 ) is an American politician and businesswoman from Milford, in Kent County, Delaware.

Ruth Ann Minner began her political career as a clerk in the Delaware House of Representatives and as a receptionist in the office of Governor Sherman W. Tribbitt.

Ruth Ann Minner of Delaware

In 2000 Dieselboy united with two other North American drum ' n ' bass DJ's, AK1200 ( Dave Minner, Orlando, FL ) and Irish ex-pat DJ Dara ( Darragh Guilfoyle, New York, NY ), to create an annual tour, the Planet of the Drums.

In 1969 she married Roger Minner and together they operated a family towing business, the Roger Minner Wrecker Service.

Minner rose to become Delaware's most powerful female politician, but she did it in a very conventional way, representing a rural, small town constituency, and building relationships and expertise by working in the legislative process over many years.

In her second inaugural address in January 2005, Minner concluded with this description of her philosophy: " for Ruth Ann Minner, farmer, gardener and daughter of a sharecropper, it is simply this: Work hard.

Spence endorsed Burris, the eventual Republican nominee, who went on to lose the general election to then Lieutenant Governor Ruth Ann Minner.

AK1200 is the stage name of Florida-based musician Dave Minner working in the jungle and drum and bass genres.

In 2009, Minner launched a new drum & bass label, Big Riddim.

Seven of Delaware's governors have come from Milford: Daniel Rogers ( who served 1797-99 ), Joseph Haslet ( 1811 – 14 ), William Tharp ( 1847 – 1851 ), Peter F. Causey ( 1855 – 59 ), William Burton ( 1859 – 63 ), William T. Watson ( 1895 – 97 ), and Ruth Ann Minner ( 2001 – 09 ).

The television commercial featured Kathryn Minner, the original Little Old Lady from Pasadena.

Roger Minner died of cancer in 1991.

While in that position she chaired the Minner Commission on Government Reorganization and Effectiveness.

Minner won easily.

As the incumbent Lieutenant Governor Minner took office upon the resignation of Governor Thomas R. Carper on January 3, 2001.

South of Laurel Grove Cemetery, and below the junction of the Neversink and the Delaware, was the Tri-State Rock, from which Stevie could spy New Jersey and Pennsylvania, as well as New York, simply by spinning around on his heel.

In addition, the right to vote the General Motors stock held by Du Pont was to be vested in Du Pont's stockholders, other than Christiana and Delaware and the stockholders of Delaware ; ;

The ASF was formed from the Apache Group and incorporated in Delaware, U. S., in June 1999.

Jean Froissart states as follows: " Now will I name some of the principal lords and knights ( men-at-arms ) that were there with the prince: the earl of Warwick, the earl of Suffolk, the earl of Salisbury, the earl of Oxford, the lord Raynold Cobham, the lord Spencer, the lord James Audley, the lord Peter his brother, the lord Berkeley, the lord Basset, the lord Warin, the lord Delaware, the lord Manne, the lord Willoughby, the lord Bartholomew de Burghersh, the lord of Felton, the lord Richard of Pembroke, the lord Stephen of Cosington, the lord Bradetane and other Englishmen ; and of Gascon there was the lord of Pommiers, the lord of Languiran, the captal of Buch, the lord John of Caumont, the lord de Lesparre, the lord of Rauzan, the lord of Condon, the lord of Montferrand, the lord of Landiras, the lord Soudic of Latrau and other ( men-at-arms ) that I cannot name ; and of Hainowes the lord Eustace d ' Aubrecicourt, the lord John of Ghistelles, and two other strangers, the lord Daniel Pasele and the lord Denis of Amposta, a fortress in Catalonia ".

Initially, half of Connecticut was a part of the Dutch colony, New Netherland, which included much of the land between the Connecticut and Delaware rivers.

New Jersey reduced these taxes after this mistake was realized, but by then it was too late ; even today, most major public corporations in the United States are set up under Delaware law.

Before its coastline was first explored by Europeans in the 16th century, Delaware was inhabited by several groups of Native Americans, including the Lenape in the north and Nanticoke in the south.

Delaware was one of the 13 colonies participating in the American Revolution and on December 7, 1787, became the first state to ratify the Constitution of the United States, thereby becoming known as The First State.

Most of the boundary between Delaware and Pennsylvania was originally defined by an arc extending from the cupola of the courthouse in the city of New Castle.

The Wedge of land between the northwest part of the arc and the Maryland border was claimed by both Delaware and Pennsylvania until 1921, when Delaware's claim was confirmed.

Before Delaware was settled by European colonists, the area was home to the Eastern Algonquian tribes known as the Unami Lenape or Delaware throughout the Delaware valley, and the Nanticoke along the rivers leading into the Chesapeake Bay.

The fact that Delaware and Pennsylvania shared the same governor was not unique.

The only real engagement on Delaware soil was the Battle of Cooch's Bridge, fought on September 3, 1777, at Cooch's Bridge in New Castle County.

At the onset of the Civil War, Delaware was only nominally a slave state, and it remained in the Union.

The United States Census Bureau estimates that the population of Delaware was 907, 135 on July 1, 2011, a 1. 02 % increase since the 2010 United States Census.

Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze ( May 24, 1816 – July 18, 1868 ) was a German American history painter best known for his painting Washington Crossing the Delaware.