Ivy Baker Priest
| Ivy Baker Priest | |
|---|---|
| 30th Treasurer of the United States | |
| In office January 28, 1953 – January 29, 1961 |
|
| President | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| Preceded by | Georgia Neese Clark |
| Succeeded by | Elizabeth Rudel Smith |
| Personal details | |
| Born | September 7, 1905 Kimberly, Utah, U.S. |
| Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Santa Monica, California, U.S. |
| Resting place | Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
| Spouse(s) | Roy Fletcher Priest Sidney Stevens |
| Children | Pat Priest 3 other |
| Religion | The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon) |
| Signature | Ivy Baker Priest's signature |
Ivy Baker Priest (September 7, 1905 – June 23, 1975) was Treasurer of the United States from 1953 to 1961 and California State Treasurer from 1967 to 1975.[1]
Biography
Priest was born in Kimberly, Utah on September 7, 1905, to Clara Fernley and Orange D. Baker.[2] Her father worked as a gold miner in Kimberly and later as a copper miner in the town of Bingham Canyon. She was active in politics from high school, when she worked to register voters in a mayoral campaign. She was a delegate to the GOP state convention in 1932, and ran for ran for Congress in Utah on the Republican ticket in 1934, but lost.
On 7 December 1935 in Salt Lake City, Utah, she married Roy Fletcher Priest.[3]
Beginning in 1944 she served for several years as Utah's Republican National Committeewoman, and in 1950 ran for Congress in Utah again and lost for a second time. During Dwight D. Eisenhower's campaign for president, Priest took charge of the women's division of the Republican National Committee and was credited with the successful drive to get out the women's vote, which totaled 52 percent of Eisenhower's victory margin.[2]
She served as Treasurer of the United States under President Eisenhower from January 28, 1953 to January 29, 1961, during which time her signature appeared on all U.S. currency.
In 1967 she became national chairman of the Easter Seals.
On 20 June 1961 in Los Angeles, California, she married Sidney William Stevens.[4][5]
In 1967 she was elected as a Republican to the office of California State Treasurer, serving two terms from 1967 until her death in 1975.
She died of cancer in Santa Monica, California on June 23, 1975.[1] She was buried in the Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Legacy
She was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.[6]
Priest was the mother of Pat Priest, an actress best known for playing Marilyn Munster in the 1960s television show The Munsters.
Quotations
"We women don't care too much about getting our pictures on money as long as we can get our hands on it."
"We seldom stop to think how many people's lives are entwined with our own. It is a form of selfishness to imagine that every individual can operate on his own or can pull out of the general stream and not be missed."
"The World is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning."
“I'm often wrong, but never in doubt.”[7]
References and notes
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- ↑ He was born on 3 January 1884 and died on 11 June 1959 in Arlington, Virginia. He was buried in the Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Utah.
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- ↑ His original surname was Silberman. He was born 3 November 1902 and was the son of Samuel and Ida (Blasberg) Silberman. He died on 2 March 1972 and was buried in the Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Utah.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Ivy Baker Priest quotes: http://thinkexist.com/quotation/i-m-often-wrong-but-never-in-doubt/761962.html
External links
- Ivy Baker Priest at Find a Grave
- A film clip "Longines Chronoscope with Ivy Baker Priest" is available at the Internet Archive
| Preceded by | Treasurer of the United States 1953–1961 |
Succeeded by Elizabeth Rudel Smith |
