Attorney General
She was elected Attorney General in 1985 and reelected in 1989, becoming the first woman elected to statewide office in Virginia, the second woman to serve as Attorney General of any U.S. state, and the first non-federal elected official in Virginia to garner more than one million votes in a single election. In 1989, she considered running for Governor, but deferred to her fellow Democrat, then-Lieutenant Governor of Virginia L. Douglas Wilder, who became the first African-American Governor of any U.S. state. When she ran in 1993, then-Lieutenant Governor Don Beyer deferred to her. Beyer, a Democrat, would go on to run for Governor in 1997, losing to the Republican candidate, then-Attorney General James S. Gilmore III.
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