| Reason for Fame | Governor |
| Informally known as the 'Governator' this man (CA) entered office following a recall election. | |
| This Governor was famous for his tight control over Virginia politics and for championing 'massive resistance' to desegregation while he was a Senator. | |
| This Governor (WI) entered the national spotlight after challenging public sector unions and surviving a high-profile recall election. | |
| This Governor (SC) resigned his chairmanship of the Republican Governors Association after it was revealed that he flew to Argentina to meet his lover. | |
| She focused the country's attention on illegal immigration after her state (AZ) passed a controversial immigration-control law. | |
| In 1953, this Governor (CA) was nominated the 14th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court by President Eisenhower. | |
| Former Governor of Arkansas who was famous for his defiance of a Supreme Court order to desegregate schools in Little Rock. | |
| | Reason for Fame | Governor |
| This former governor (MA) is the 2012 Republican Presidential candidate. | |
| In 2008, he resigned as Governor of New York after it was revealed that he purchased services from high-end prostitutes. | |
| This man (NJ) was recently at the center of a financial scandal involving massive trading losses at MF Global. | |
| She was heavily criticized for her state's (LA) slow response to Hurricane Katrina. | |
| He was the first African-American governor of his state (VA) and the first African-American governor since reconstruction. | |
| Governor of Illinois until 2009, when he was impeached following accusations that he tried to sell President Obama's open Senate seat. | |
| In 2006, this former governor (IL) was convicted of corruption for his role in a scheme to sell commercial driving licenses to unqualified drivers in exchange for bribes. | |
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