Two were established by governors, one Republican (Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett) and one Democrat (Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley), and the third by President Obama, also a Democrat.
The Democratic newcomers were lucky that several established Republican governors, including Tommy Thompson in Wisconsin and John Engler in Michigan (both engaging centrists), stepped down.
After the Russian conquest established military governors and administrators in Alma-Ata (now Almaty), Uralsk (Oral), Yaik, and elsewhere, Kazakhstan began in the 19th century to develop its own cities.
The person with the most power over whether the carbon market gets established is Governor Jerry Brown, a Democrat, who has been quiet on the issue so far.
Mitt Romney has played to this constituency by renouncing the kind of government-mandated health care that he established as governor of Massachusetts.
Since Mr. Rowland established the Governor's Open Space Program two years ago, Connecticut municipalities have spent about $40 million to buy or preserve more than 14,000 acres.
After the tragedy, Connecticut created a somewhat confusing process, with one commission established by Governor Malloy to research guns, violence and mental health issues and a separate task force set up by the legislature.
The Connecticut Green Bank was established by Governor Dannell Malloy with bipartisan support based on Professor Daniel Esty's idea that limited public clean energy funding could have greater impact if it were used to leverage private capital through a new quasi-public entity.
When the new arrangements were established, the governor was expected to put pen to paper quite often, given previous experience of how volatile inflation had been.Of course neither Mr Brown nor the bank can take full credit for everything that has gone right.
Still, former Representative Dick Zimmer, who was chairman of the panel established by Governor Whitman, known formally as the Study Commission on the Implementation of the Death Penalty, said in a recent interview that he saw no reason for another study, and that there was no need to delay executions any longer.
