FILE - In this May 5, 1976, file photo, California Secretary of State March Fong Eu, left, with first lady Betty Ford, checks the names of delegates pledged to President Gerald Ford in the California June 8, primary election, after putting her stamp of approval on them in her Sacramento office in California. California's first female secretary of state and former ambassador to Micronesia has died at age 95. March Fong Eu, California's first female secretary of state and former ambassador to Micronesia, died Thursday, Dec. 21, 2017, at the age of 95. Longtime spokeswoman Caren Lagomarsino said that Eu died in Irvine, California, from complications following a fall and subsequent surgery. (AP Photo, File)