He was elected to the Board in his own right in the 1964 election.

He was elected in his own right in 1972, 1974, 1975 and 1980.

Connecticut, and later Washington, was the first state to elect a woman governor in her own right.

She was elected in her own right last year.

While it is true that all six women candidates for governor lost, just 20 years ago no woman had been elected in her own right.

He was elected in his own right in 1993, 1998 and 2004.

Eight other women have served as governors, five of them elected in their own right.

He was elected to Congress in his own right in 1944.

He was elected in his own right for the first time in 1931.

The next year Adams was elected as governor in his own right, the first of four annual terms.