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Elizabeth Ann "Beth" Rickey (June 11, 1956 – September 12, 2009)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Social Security Death Index )〕 was a Republican political activist from Louisiana who exposed the neo-Nazi connections〔 of former State Representative David Duke, who ran for the U.S. Senate and for governor of Louisiana in 1990 and 1991, respectively, under the GOP label though opposed by the party leadership. ==Early years and family== Rickey was born in Lafayette to Horace B. Rickey, Jr. (1901–1967), a veteran of World War II, and the former Flora Ann Womack (1921–1998). Rickey, who was single, had a brother, Robert Harper Rickey and his wife, Karen Elizabeth Rickey, of Devon, England.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Social Security Death Index )〕 An uncle, Branch Rickey, was a Major League Baseball executive who in 1947 signed Jackie Robinson to play for the Brooklyn Dodgers, the first African American so designated.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Tom Sharpe, "Eizabeth Ann 'Beth' Rickey, 1956-2009: David Duke nemesis dies in Santa Fe Activist who helped scuttle neo-Nazi's political career had hoped to rebuild life here" )〕〔The author is unable to determine exactly how Beth Rickey is descended from Branch Rickey.〕 Rickey's family was Republican. Horace Rickey was the early 1960s the secretary of the Louisiana Republican State Central Committee〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=List of Officers, Republican State Central Committees, October 3, 1961 )〕 on which his daughter would later be a member. The Rickeys supported both Barry Goldwater in 1964 and Ronald Reagan in 1980 and 1984 for President. She received her Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts in government at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. She taught government at Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond until she entered Ph.D. studies at Tulane University.〔Patricia Sullivan, "Beth Rickey dies with an immune disorder and Crohn's disease," ''Washington Post'', September 16, 2009〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Beth Rickey」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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