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unusual facts about L. Douglas Wilder



James Douglas McComas

McComas had been in office only a year when the state learned that its projected revenues had been vastly overestimated, and Gov. L. Douglas Wilder ordered severe funding cuts to higher education to balance the budget.

John Chichester

Chichester won the 1985 Republican nomination for Lieutenant Governor, but was defeated in the general election by state senator L. Douglas Wilder, who would go on to become the first African-American state governor since Reconstruction.

Rudolph McCollum Jr.

Opting to run for a second term, McCollum received an extremely low percentage of the vote, losing to former-governor L. Douglas Wilder by a margin of over 60 percent.


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