People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1895 — She Governor Pro Tem. of Wyoming. [ARTICLE]

She Governor Pro Tem. of Wyoming.

Miss Eleanor Alice Richards, daughter of the Governor of Wyoming, during a week's absence of her father, was acting governor of the state, empowered to exercise all the prerogatives of the office. She is her father’s private secretary, and a very valuable one. The Lieutenant-Governor of that state is merely the president of the senate, and it is rather strange that no official is designated by the constitution to act as governor at such times c: nee.