With Maura Healey, Massachusetts will have its first woman elected governor in the state’s history with a 50/50 shot at also having the first Lesbian governor in the country.

With Former Boston City Council president Andrea Campbell as the new Attorney General, Diana DiZoglio succeeding Susanne Bump as auditor, and Treasurer Deborah Goldberg serving a third term in office with the exception of Secretary of State Galvin, the top slots in the Massachusetts State House will be women and young at that, not just some new old guys moving into expected slots.

In light of Abigail Adams’s admonition to her husband, John,  in July 1776, and after the 246 years since, perhaps it is time, now that we have remembered the women, to make Abigail Adams’s birthday a state holiday.