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Inside the Governor’s Mansions That Will Soon Be Home to 19 Newly Elected Leaders

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See where Gina Hinojosa, Keisha Lance Bottoms, Deb Haaland, and more will live come January

The Govenor’s Mansion in California. Photo: Bloomberg/Getty Images

In January, the United States’ 19 newly elected governors won’t just have inauguration day on their calendars, but moving day, too. All but five states have governor’s mansions for their leaders to live and work from, with the exceptions being Arizona, Idaho, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Vermont. These executive residences tend to be grand in style and scale, often possessing a long, rich history—even some haunted ones.

Sometimes, governors forego their official residences in favor of privately owned homes . For example, California governor Gavin Newsom recently listed the $7.5 million Fair Oaks home he lived in instead of the official executive residence, a 19th-century Victorian in Sacramento.…

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