Francine Irving Neff

Signature of Francine Irving Neff

Francine Irving Neff (born December 6, 1925 in Albuquerque , New Mexico , † February 9, 2010 in Pena Blanca , New Mexico) was an American government official.

Career

Francine Irving Neff, daughter of Georga Henderson (1895–1979) and Edward Hackett Irving (1892–1954), was born in Bernalillo County about seven years after the end of World War I. Nothing is known about her youth. Irving graduated from the University of New Mexico in 1948 . In the following years she married Edward John Neff (1924-2005).

She joined the Republican Party . In the run-up to the 1964 presidential election , she campaigned for Republican challenger Barry Goldwater . Between 1970 and 1974 she was in the Republican National Committee and adopted in 1972 as a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Miami ( Florida part). President Richard Nixon named her Treasurer of the United States . She held this post from June 21, 1974 to January 19, 1977. She served most of her term under President Gerald Ford . At the time of their appointment, the office of Treasurer of the United States was being reorganized. During the first part of her tenure, she was named the National Director of the Savings Bonds Division . She was also the first treasurer to manage an agency and the first person to report to the Under Secretary for Monetary Affairs . During her tenure, she oversaw the United States Bicentennial Program. She died in 2010 of heart failure in Pena Blanca, Sandoval County .

Irving was a member of the Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans and holds an honorary doctorate from New Mexico State University .

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Francine Irving Neff in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved February 12, 2015.
2. ^ Edward John Neff in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved February 12, 2015.