Barbara Vucanovich

Barbara Vucanovich

Barbara Farrell Vucanovich (born June 22, 1921 in Camp Dix , New Jersey , † June 10, 2013 ) was an American politician ( Republican Party ). Between 1983 and 1997 she represented the second constituency of the state of Nevada in the US House of Representatives .

Early years

Barbara Vucanovich attended Miss Quinn's School in Albany, New York State . She then graduated from the Albany Academy for Girls until 1938 and then the Manhattan College of Sacred Heart until 1939 . In the 1940s she worked as a businesswoman in various positions in New York State. In 1939 she married her first husband, James Henry Bugden, from whom she divorced in 1949. In 1949 she moved to Reno , Nevada. There she married the lawyer Kenneth Dillon in 1950. After Dillon's death, she married George Vucanovich in 1965.

Political career

In 1974, Barbara Vucanovich became a member of the staff of U.S. Senator Paul Laxalt of Nevada, a position she held until 1982. In 1976 and 1980 she was a delegate at the Republican National Conventions , where Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan were nominated as the party's presidential candidates. In 1982 she was elected to the US House of Representatives as the first member of the newly created second constituency of Nevada. After several re-elections, she was able to exercise her mandate in Congress between January 3, 1983 and January 3, 1997. She has since been a member of several committees such as the Postal Committee, the Civil Service Committee, and the War Veterans Committee. She was also a member of a subcommittee that dealt with military equipment spending, and from 1987 to 1997 a member of the Presidential Debate Commission . In 1996 Vucanovich declined to run again.

Another résumé

In 2002 she was a member of a commission responsible for the selection of employees in the White House. She then retired. Her daughter, Patricia Dillon Cafferata, was the Nevada Treasury Secretary and district attorney for three counties. She also wrote a biography of her mother.

Web links

• Barbara Vucanovich in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Obituary for Barbara Vucanovich in: Huffington Post ( Memento from June 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive )