Stephen Terry: The many legacies of Phil Hoff

Editor’s note: This commentary is by Stephen C. Terry, who is co-author of a political biography of Gov. Phil Hoff. He also covered the Hoff years in Montpelier as a Vermont Press Bureau reporter from 1965 to 1969.
The recent death of former Democratic Gov. Philip H. Hoff serves as an indelible marker of how much Vermont has changed since 1962 when the first-term Burlington lawmaker surprised the nation and was elected governor.
Until Hoff became the first popularly elected Democratic gove