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Elly Peterson, Charlotte: Pioneering [MI] GOP leader dies
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| Last Edited | RMF Jun 10, 2008 07:54pm |
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| News Date | Wednesday, June 11, 2008 01:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | LANSING -- A pioneering former chairwoman of the Michigan Republican Party who devoted herself to passing the Equal Rights Amendment has died. Elly Peterson was 94.
Mrs. Peterson died Monday, June 9, 2008, in Grand Junction, Colo., where she had moved several years ago to be close to a niece, said longtime friend Joyce Braithwaite-Brickley.
Mrs. Peterson was the first woman to head a major political party in Michigan, serving as state Republican chairwoman from 1965-69.
She also was the first Michigan woman to be nominated for the U.S. Senate, the first to address a National Republican Convention, the first to twice co-chair the Republican National Committee and the first to serve as deputy campaign chairman for a presidential candidate. |
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