Events from the year 1970 in the United States.

Incumbents

Federal government

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Governors

• Governor of Alabama: Albert Brewer (Democratic) • Governor of Alaska: Keith Harvey Miller (Republican) (until December 7), William A. Egan (Democratic) (starting December 7) • Governor of Arizona: Jack Richard Williams (Republican) • Governor of Arkansas: Winthrop Rockefeller (Republican) • Governor of California: Ronald Reagan (Republican) • Governor of Colorado: John Arthur Love (Republican) • Governor of Connecticut: John N. Dempsey (Democratic) • Governor of Delaware: Russell W. Peterson (Republican) • Governor of Florida: Claude R. Kirk Jr. (Republican) • Governor of Georgia: Lester Maddox (Democratic) • Governor of Hawaii: John A. Burns (Democratic) • Governor of Idaho: Don Samuelson (Republican) • Governor of Illinois: Richard B. Ogilvie (Republican) • Governor of Indiana: Edgar Whitcomb (Republican) • Governor of Iowa: Robert D. Ray (Republican) • Governor of Kansas: Robert Docking (Democratic) • Governor of Kentucky: Louie B. Nunn (Republican) • Governor of Louisiana: John J. McKeithen (Democratic) • Governor of Maine: Kenneth M. Curtis (Democratic) • Governor of Maryland: Marvin Mandel (Democratic) • Governor of Massachusetts: Francis W. Sargent (Republican) • Governor of Michigan: William Milliken (Republican) • Governor of Minnesota: Harold LeVander (Republican) • Governor of Mississippi: John Bell Williams (Democratic) • Governor of Missouri: Warren E. Hearnes (Democratic) • Governor of Montana: Forrest H. Anderson (Democratic) • Governor of Nebraska: Norbert T. Tiemann (Republican) • Governor of Nevada: Paul Laxalt (Republican) • Governor of New Hampshire: Walter R. Peterson Jr. (Republican) • Governor of New Jersey: Richard J. Hughes (Democratic) (until January 20), William T. Cahill (Republican) (starting January 20) • Governor of New Mexico: David F. Cargo (Republican) • Governor of New York: Nelson Rockefeller (Republican) • Governor of North Carolina: Robert W. Scott (Democratic) • Governor of North Dakota: William L. Guy (Democratic) • Governor of Ohio: Jim Rhodes (Republican) • Governor of Oklahoma: Dewey F. Bartlett (Republican) • Governor of Oregon: Tom McCall (Republican) • Governor of Pennsylvania: Raymond P. Shafer (Republican) • Governor of Rhode Island: Frank Licht (Democratic) • Governor of South Carolina: Robert Evander McNair (Democratic) • Governor of South Dakota: Frank Farrar (Republican) • Governor of Tennessee: Buford Ellington (Democratic) • Governor of Texas: Preston Smith (Democratic) • Governor of Utah: Cal Rampton (Democratic) • Governor of Vermont: Deane C. Davis (Republican) • Governor of Virginia: Mills Godwin (Democratic) (until January 17), Linwood Holton (Republican) (starting January 17) • Governor of Washington: Daniel J. Evans (Republican) • Governor of West Virginia: Arch A. Moore Jr. (Republican) • Governor of Wisconsin: Warren P. Knowles (Republican) • Governor of Wyoming: Stanley K. Hathaway (Republican)

Lieutenant governors

• Lieutenant Governor of Alabama: vacant • Lieutenant Governor of Alaska: Robert W. Ward (Republican) (until December 7), H. A. Boucher (Democratic) (starting December 7) • Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas: Maurice Britt (Republican) • Lieutenant Governor of California: Edwin Reinecke (Republican) • Lieutenant Governor of Colorado: Mark Anthony Hogan (Democratic) • Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut: Attilio R. Frassinelli (Democratic) • Lieutenant Governor of Delaware: Eugene Bookhammer (Republican) • Lieutenant Governor of Florida: Ray C. Osborne (Republican) • Lieutenant Governor of Georgia: George T. Smith (Democratic) • Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii: Thomas Gill (Democratic) (until December 2), George Ariyoshi (Democratic) (starting December 2) • Lieutenant Governor of Idaho: Jack M. Murphy (Democratic) • Lieutenant Governor of Illinois: Paul Simon (Democratic) • Lieutenant Governor of Indiana: Richard E. Folz (Republican) • Lieutenant Governor of Iowa: Roger Jepsen (Republican) • Lieutenant Governor of Kansas: James H. DeCoursey Jr. (Democratic) • Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky: Wendell H. Ford (Democratic) • Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana: C. C. Aycock (Democratic) • Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts: Francis W. Sargent (Republican) • Lieutenant Governor of Michigan: • * until month and day unknown: vacant • * month and day unknown: Thomas F. Schweigert (Republican) • * starting month and day unknown: vacant • Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota: James B. Goetz (Republican) • Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi: Charles L. Sullivan (Democratic) • Lieutenant Governor of Missouri: William S. Morris (Democratic) • Lieutenant Governor of Montana: Thomas Lee Judge (Democratic) • Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska: John E. Everroad (Republican) • Lieutenant Governor of Nevada: Edward Fike (political party unknown) • Lieutenant Governor of New Mexico: Elias Lee Francis II (Republican) • Lieutenant Governor of New York: Malcolm Wilson (Republican) • Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina: Hoyt Patrick Taylor Jr. (Democratic) • Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota: Richard F. Larsen (Republican) • Lieutenant Governor of Ohio: John William Brown (Republican) • Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma: George Nigh (Democratic) • Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania: Raymond J. Broderick (Republican) • Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island: J. Joseph Garrahy (Democratic) • Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina: John C. West (Democratic) • Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota: James Abdnor (Republican) • Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee: Frank Gorrell (Democratic) • Lieutenant Governor of Texas: Ben Barnes (Democratic) • Lieutenant Governor of Vermont: Thomas L. Hayes (Republican) • Lieutenant Governor of Virginia: Fred G. Pollard (Democratic) (until January 17), J. Sargeant Reynolds (Democratic) (starting January 17) • Lieutenant Governor of Washington: John Cherberg (Democratic) • Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin: Jack B. Olson (Republican)

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