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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.〔 ==Biography== Priest was born in Kimberly, Utah on September 7, 1905, to Clara Fernley and Orange D. Baker. 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.〔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.〕 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.〔 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.〔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.〕 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. She was buried in the Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Utah. 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「Ivy Baker Priest」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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