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    Where Does The Term 'Gubernatorial' Come From?

    Saturday is the final gubernatorial election of 2019. It got us wondering why we use the term "gubernatorial" in the first place. Hint: It goes back to Latin.
    by Acacia Squires Nov 15, 2019 1 minute
    Engraved portrait of George Clinton, a former U.S. vice president who was also New York state's first and longest-serving governor, in the late 18th century — not long after the first sign of the word <em>gubernatorial</em> appeared in the English language.

    Gubernatorial wasn't a word I thought much about until I started editing pieces about gubernatorial elections.

    In fact, there's a gubernatorial election in Louisiana on Saturday between the only Democratic governor in the deep South and his Republican challenger, a wealthy Trump-backed

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