In 2005, New Jersey ranked in the bottom ten of the fifty states for women in elective office and women's political participation. The ranking is based on two annual reports on women in politics. The Rutgers University based Center for American Women and Politics, part of the Eagleton Institute for Politics, compiles data on women in office throughout the country and ranks states by the number of women in the state legislature. The most recent report preceding the 2005 election ranks NJ 41st. Since Loretta Weinberg became state senator from the 37th district, and her assembly seat will be filled by Valerie Huttle, New Jersey will move up in the rankings next year. The Washington DC based Institute for Women's Policy Research ranks states for women in elective office from assembly seats up to governor, giving different weights for example, to state executive office versus an assembly or state senator seat and gives NJ a ranking of 48 out of 50 based on data from 2004. The recent expansion of the number of women in the state legislature will not significantly improve this ranking. New Jersey has had one woman governor - Christine Todd Whitman (R). She served from 1994 to 2001, when she resigned to become commissioner of the federal Environmental Protection Agency. New Jersey has never sent a woman to the United States Senate, and currently there are no U.S. congresswomen from New Jersey. The state has had five U.S. congresswomen going back to 1925, most recently Marge Roukema (R-NJ 5), who retired after 11 terms in 2002. In January 2006, there will be 13 women in the assembly and 7 women in the state senate, bringing the percentage to 17.5%. The 2005 national average is 22.6%. The Assembly Majority Leader beginning in 2006 will be Bonnie Watson Coleman and the President pro tempore of the State Senate will continue to be Shirley K. Turner. In 2005, 26% of 138 county freeholders were women, and 12.7% of the 566 mayors were women. There are 42 county party chairs for the two major parties, five of them are women, two Democrats and three Republicans. According to the Women's Project of New Jersey, women had the right to vote in the state as early as 1776 (along with African-Americans, but not the poor). In 1807, the state legislature passed a law allowing only white men to vote. New Jersey was the last state to revoke the women's right. In 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment to the US constitution allowed women to vote again in New Jersey. Currently, women register and turn out to vote in greater numbers than men both in the state and nationally.