Politics The Democratic attorney general will also be one of the nation's first openly lesbian governors.Maura Healey will be the first woman elected governor of Massachusetts and one of the nation's first openly lesbian politicians to ever serve as a state's chief executive.Healey, 51, the state's Democratic attorney general and a South End resident, along with running mate Salem Mayor Kim Driscoll, handily notched a gubernatorial victory on Tuesday against Republican Geoff Diehl, a Donald Trump-backed former state representative from Whitman who ran alongside fellow former legislator Leah Allen, of Danvers.
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