Elizabeth Dole is the wife of Bob Dole and a famous American woman who has served in both high profile government positions.
Her career began with her election to the North Carolina Legislature, where she was its first female leader and later became chairwoman of the Republican National Committee before being elected senator from that state’s seat.
She ran unsuccessfully for president herself once but made history when running again four years later on another ticket.
Elizabeth Dole was born on 29 July 1936 to John Van Hanford and Mary Cathey Hanford. Her parents were wealthy merchants in the floral industry.
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Marriage
Bob and Elizabeth Dole got married in 1975, and have been together for more than 40 years.
Education
She holds a degree in political science from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina which she earned in 1958. She holds a 1960 law degree from Harvard Law School alongside a 1965 Masters of Arts at Harvard University.
Career
Elizabeth Dole worked as a deputy assistant for consumer affairs under Pres. Richard Nixon from 1969 to 1973. To add to this, she was a member of the Federal Trade Commission and Assistant to President Reagan for Public Liaison.
She however resigned from her position to help her husband campaign for his Presidential run in 1980.
In 1983, she became the first woman to be appointed U.S. Secretary of Transportation. Five years later, Elizabeth was appointed as the U.S. Secretary of Labor.
In 2002, Elizabeth Dole won a seat in the U.S Senate from North Carolina and was chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee until from 2005 to 2007 and left the Senate in 2009 after an unsuccessful bid for reelection.
In 2012 she established the Elizabeth Dole Foundation to support the caregivers of injured soldiers.
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