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Abner Linwood Holton Jr. (* 21. September 1923 in Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Virginia; † 28. Oktober 2021 in Kilmarnock, Virginia [1]) war ein US-amerikanischer Politiker. Er war von 1970 bis 1974 Gouverneur des Bundesstaates Virginia .
Abner Linwood Holton Jr. (September 21, 1923 – October 28, 2021) was an American politician and attorney. He served as the 61st governor of Virginia, from 1970 to 1974, and was the first elected Republican governor of Virginia of the 20th century.
28. Nov. 2022 · A biography of the first Republican governor of Virginia since Reconstruction, who ended Massive Resistance and supported public school desegregation. Learn about his early life, political career, and achievements as governor from 1970 to 1974.
1. Nov. 2021 · A. Linwood Holton Jr., who as Virginia’s first Republican governor in nearly a century knocked loose the stranglehold of white supremacy on the state, cleaned up its waterways and promoted a...
28. Okt. 2021 · A. Linwood Holton Jr., the reformist Virginia governor best remembered for racially integrating the state’s public schools with the dramatic gesture of accompanying his daughter to a...
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29. Okt. 2021 · Former Republican Virginia Gov. A. Linwood Holton Jr., an anti-segregationist and the state’s first GOP governor to be elected post-Reconstruction, has died, according to a tweet from his...
29. Okt. 2021 · RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A. Linwood Holton Jr., Virginia’s first Republican governor since Reconstruction and a crusader against racial discrimination, died Thursday. He was 98. Holton, who served from 1970 to 1974, declared an end to “Massive Resistance,” Virginia’s institutional defiance of federal orders to desegregate its ...
