Mister Bill

On this date in 1979, Bill Clinton became the Governor of Arkansas at 32 years of age, making him the youngest governor in the country.  He'd held office previously as Arkansas' Attorney General, after losing a congressional race in 1974, but this was his first executive office.  He focused on educational reform and, in a prelude to his first term in the White House, partnered with Hillary on urban health care reform. However, he got himself in trouble with the voters over a motor vehicle tax as well as issues arising from rioting at Fort Chafee by Cuban refugees being detained after the Mariel Boatlift, which cost him his governorship after just one term.  But the kid came back and won re-election in 1982, serving until he was elected president in 1992.