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Elizabeth Dole
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Senior Senator, North Carolina
Term of office: 2003–Present
Political party:	Republican
Preceded by:	Jesse Helms
Succeeded by:	Incumbent (2009)
Born:	July 29, 1936 Salisbury, North Carolina
Spouse:	Robert Dole
Religion:	Methodist

Elizabeth Hanford Dole, sometimes called Liddy Dole (born July 29, 1936) was elected to the United States Senate in 2002 to represent North Carolina for a term ending in 2009. She is a Republican and is also the outgoing chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. Her husband is former US Senator and Presidental nominee Bob Dole.

Contents 1 Early life and career 2 2000 Presidential election 3 Election to the U.S. Senate 4 Electoral history 5 Books 6 Books by other authors 7 See also 8 External links

[edit] Early life and career

Born Elizabeth Hanford in Salisbury, North Carolina, she attended Duke University, graduating in 1958, obtaining a master's degree from Harvard University in 1960 and a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1965. She is an alumna of the Delta Delta Delta sorority.

She moved to Washington, DC as a Democrat in 1966, working on issues concerning the handicapped. From 1969 to 1973, Elizabeth Dole served as Deputy Assistant to President Nixon for Consumer Affairs. In 1973, Nixon appointed her to a seven-year term on the Federal Trade Commission. In 1975, she became a Republican. She took a leave from her post as a Federal Trade Commissioner for several months in 1976 to campaign for her husband for Vice President of the United States. She resigned from the FTC in 1979 to campaign for her husband's 1980 Presidential Campaign.

She married Senator Robert J. Dole as his second wife on December 6, 1975. They have no children. Her election marked the second time a spouse of a former Senator was elected to the Senate from a different state than that of her spouse (the first was Kansas Senator Nancy Landon Kassebaum, who married former Tennessee Senator Howard Baker--though Kassebaum and Baker were married after both had finished their service in the Senate).

She served as United States Secretary of Transportation from 1983 to 1987 under Ronald Reagan, the first woman appointed to that position. In this role, she was the first woman to have served as the head of a branch of the United States Military, because the United States Coast Guard was in the Department of Transportation at the time.

During her tenure the implementation of the third brake light on passenger cars was made mandatory. She worked with MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving) to pass laws witholding federal highway funding from any state which had a drinking age below an age twenty-one(21). She oversaw the privitization of the national freight railroad, CONRAIL. She initiated random drug testing within the Department of Transportation.

Dole served as United States Secretary of Labor from 1989 to 1990 under George H. W. Bush; she is the first woman to serve in two different Cabinet positions in the administrations of two Presidents.

From 1991 to 1999 she was president of the American Red Cross.

[edit] 2000 Presidential election

Dole ran for the Republican nomination in the US presidential election of 2000, but pulled out of the race in October 1999 before any of the primaries, largely due to inadequate fundraising. Dole placed third — behind George W. Bush and Steve Forbes — in a large field in the Iowa Straw Poll (the first, non-binding, test of electability for the GOP nomination).

In July 2000, shortly before the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia, Bush campaign sources said Dole was on the short list to be named the vice-presidential nominee, along with Michigan Governor John Engler, New York Governor George Pataki, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge, and former Missouri Senator John Danforth [1]. Dole was widely believed by many pundits to have been the frontrunner for the nomination. Bush then surprised most pundits by selecting former U.S. Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney, who was actually in charge of leading Bush's search for a vice presidential nominee.

[edit] Election to the U.S. Senate

In 2002, Dole sought election to the U.S. Senate from North Carolina, to fill the seat that was made available by the retirement of Jesse Helms (R). She defeated her Democratic opponent Erskine Bowles, a former chief of staff to former President Bill Clinton.

In November 2004, following Republican gains in the United States Senate, Dole narrowly edged out Senator Norm Coleman of Minnesota for the post of chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee.She is first woman to become chair of the NRSC. During her election cycle as chairperson, her party lost six U.S. Senate seats to the Democrats, thus losing control of the U.S. Senate.

Dole is expected to be replaced as NRSC chair by Senator John Ensign of Nevada.

[edit] Electoral history

• 2002 Race for U.S. Senate
  • Elizabeth Dole (R), 54%
  • Erskine Bowles (D), 45%

[edit] Books

• Dole, Bob & Elizabeth, (1988) The Doles: Unlimited Partners, with Richard Norton Smith. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-671-60202-0
  • (re-release)Unlimited Partners: Our American Story. Simon & Schuster, 1996. ISBN 0-684-83401-4
• Dole, Elizabeth (2004) Hearts Touched by Fire: My 500 Most Inspirational Quotations. Carroll & Graf. ISBN 0-7867-1428-X

[edit] Books by other authors

• Wertheimer, Molly Meijer and Nichola D. Gutgold (2004) Elizabeth Hanford Dole: Speaking from the Heart. Praeger Publishers. ISBN 0-275-98378-1

[edit] See also

• Women in the United States Senate

[edit] External links

• Official Site U. S. Senate
• Information from Project Vote Smart
  • Project Vote Smart Page Biography
  • Campaign Finances
  • Issue Positions
  • Voting record
• OnTheIssues
• Voting record maintained by the Washington Post

Preceded by: Andrew L. Lewis, Jr.	United States Secretary of Transportation 1983 – 1987	Succeeded by: James H. Burnley IV
Preceded by: Ann Dore McLaughlin	United States Secretary of Labor 1989 – 1990	Succeeded by: Lynn Morley Martin
Preceded by: Richard Schubert	President of the American Red Cross 1991 – 1999	Succeeded by: Bernadine Healy
Preceded by: Jesse Helms	United States Senator (Class 1) from North Carolina 2003 – present Served alongside: John Edwards, Richard Burr	Incumbent

United States Secretaries of Labor <td style="vertical-align: middle; width: 1px" rowspan="2"> </td>
Secretaries of Commerce & Labor (1903–1913): Cortelyou • Metcalf • Straus • Nagel Secretaries of Labor (1913—): Wilson • Davis • Doak • Perkins • Schwellenbach • Tobin • Durkin • Mitchell • Goldberg • Wirtz • Shultz • Hodgson • Brennan • Dunlop • Usery • Marshall • Donovan • Brock • McLaughlin • Dole • Martin • Reich • Herman • Chao

United States Secretaries of Transportation <td style="vertical-align: middle; width: 1px" rowspan="2"> </td>
Boyd • Volpe • Brinegar • Coleman • Adams • Goldschmidt • Lewis • Dole • Burnley • Skinner • Card • Peña • Slater • Mineta • Peters

Chairmen of the National Republican Senatorial Committee
Bridges • Brewster • Dirksen • Goldwater • Dirksen • Goldwater • Morton • Murphy • Tower • Dominick • Stevens • Packwood • Heinz • Packwood • Lugar • Heinz • Boschwitz • Nickles • Gramm • D'Amato • McConnell • Frist • Allen • Dole

Persondata
NAME	Dole, Elizabeth Hanford
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Dole, Liddy
SHORT DESCRIPTION	U.S. Senator and Secretary of Transportation
DATE OF BIRTH	July 29, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH	Salisbury, North Carolina
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH

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