Website Title: WyoHistory
Page Title: The Ambition of Nellie Tayloe Ross
Website Address: https://www.wyohistory.org/encyclopedia/ambition-nellie-tayloe-ross
Author: Tom Rea
Date Published: November 8, 2014
After William B. Ross died in 1924, his wife Nellie Taylor Ross was asked to run for the governor of Wyoming. She was inaugurated on January 5, 1925, she would then be the first woman governor in the US.