“North Carolina Senator” Elizabeth Dole Hand Signed 3X5 Card Todd Mueller COA

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“North Carolina Senator” Elizabeth Dole Hand Signed 3X5 Card.
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Mary Elizabeth Alexander
Hanford Dole
(born July 29, 1936) is an American attorney, author and politician who served in the
Nixon
,
Reagan
, and
Bush
presidential administrations. She also served as a
United States Senator
for
North Carolina
from 2003 to 2009. A graduate of
Duke University
and
Harvard Law School
, Dole served as
Secretary of Transportation
under
Ronald Reagan
and
Secretary of Labor
under
George H. W. Bush
before becoming head of the
American Red Cross
. She next served as
North Carolina
's first female
U.S. Senator
(2003–09). She is a member of the
Republican Party
and former chair of the
National Republican Senatorial Committee
. She is the widow of former U.S.
Senate Majority Leader
,
1976 Republican vice presidential nominee
, and
1996 Republican presidential nominee
Bob Dole
. Dole was born Mary Elizabeth Alexander Hanford in
Salisbury, North Carolina
, to Mary Ella (
née
Cathey; 1901–2004) and John Van Hanford (1893–1978). Dole attended Duke University and graduated with distinction in
Political Science
, on June 2, 1958. She was a finalist for an Angier B. Duke scholarship, a full-tuition award given to outstanding applicants who matriculate at Duke. She was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and was a recipient of the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award, a national prize given to those exemplifying the ideal of service to others. Among her activities at Duke were the chapel choir,
Chanticleer
(yearbook) business staff, freshman advisory council, The Order of the White Duchy (a local honorary society for outstanding women student leaders, a female counterpart of
The Order of The Red Friars
), Phi Kappa Delta (a local leadership honorary for senior women), and
Pi Sigma Alpha
(a national political-science honorary society). Dole is a sister of
Delta Delta Delta
. She was also elected president of the woman's student government association, 1958 May queen, and "leader of the year" by the student newspaper,
The Chronicle
. Dole has remained involved with Duke University, serving at various points in time as president of the Duke University alumnae association, and a member of the board of trustees and board of visitors. She has spoken formally at Duke several times. Following her graduation from Duke, she did her post-graduate work at Oxford in 1959. After Oxford, she took a job as a student teacher at
Melrose High School
in
Melrose, Massachusetts
, for the 1959–1960 school year. While teaching, she also pursued her master's degree in education from
Harvard University
, which she earned in 1960, followed by a
J.D.
from
Harvard Law School
in 1965. At graduation, she was one of 24 women in a class of 550 students. She is an alumna of the
Phi Beta Kappa
honor society.