Dorothy Andrews Elston Kabis

Dorothy Andrews Elston Kabis (born March 22, 1917 in Wilkes-Barre , Pennsylvania , † July 3, 1971 in Sheffield , Massachusetts ) was an American government official. She was the fifth woman to hold the post of Treasurer of the United States .

Career

Dorothy Andrews, daughter of Mabel Aston and Reginald Hastings Andrews, was born in Lucerne County during the First World War . Nothing is known about her youth. Andrews attended the Maryville College in Maryville ( Tennessee ). In 1936 she married her first husband Russell Ransom Elston (1911-1975) there. The couple divorced in 1960. Her second husband was Walter Kabis. During the 1940s and 1950s, Andrews worked in the legal department of DuPont in Wilmington ( Delaware ). After 1946, she also ran a tree nursery in Middletown ( New Castle County ).

Andrews became active in the Republican Party at the beginning of the Eisenhower administration . Between 1956 and 1959 she worked in the Delaware Division of the Farmers Home Administration . She participated as a delegate to the Republican National Conventions in 1956 and 1960 and served on the Rules Committee and the Platform Committee. She also sat on the Delaware Republican State Central Committee from 1954 to 1958 . As a moderate Conservative, Andrews campaigned for Barry Goldwater in the run-up to the 1964 presidential election . After the election, but was known to the governor of New York Nelson Rockefeller preferred as the most liberal of the serious Republican candidates. Nevertheless, they later supported the nomination of Richard Nixon at the Republican National Convention in Miami Beach ( Florida ). President Nixon then named her Treasurer of the United States . She held the post from May 8, 1969 until her death.

Andrews joined the Republican Relief Society, the National Federation of Republican Women, in 1954 and was elected president in 1962 - a post she held between 1963 and 1968. The most publicly published election of all took place in Washington, DC in 1967 , where a successor to Andrews was elected. Ordinarily, the first female vice president, then Conservative Phyllis Schlafly , would unanimously win the top position. But when Schlafly tried to become president, Andrews integrated against her and Schlafly lost the election. Gladys O'Donnell then went out of the race as the winner. She was a favorite of the moderates in the Republican Party, which had the active support of Governors Nelson Rockefeller, Winthrop Rockefeller of Arkansas and George Romney of Michigan . Andrews was also active in the League of Women Voters and in the Methodist Church .

She died of a heart attack in Sheffield, Berkshire County , in 1971, at the age of 54 , while visiting her father's grave. In her honor, the National Federation of Republican Women established an internship program for young women.

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c} Dorothy Andrews Elston Kabis: Who's Who in America, 1970-1971, p. 662
2. ^ ^{A b} Donald T. Critchlow: Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism, Princeton University Press, 2005, pp. 138-159
3. ↑ Milestones, July 19, 1971 , Time
4. ↑ National Federation of Republican Women ( Memento of the original from June 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  

Web links

• Dorothy Andrews Elston Kabis in the database of Find a Grave (English)