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for a total of 28 years, 9 months, 17 days (or 10,518 days), and remains the longest-serving secretary of state in
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had been appointed by Bolin to finish his term as secretary of state, but was ineligible to succeed him as governor because she had not been elected to her office. Babbitt, then serving as state
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