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Senate Years of Service: 2003-2009 Party: Republican
DOLE, Elizabeth Hanford, (wife of Robert J. Dole),
a Senator from North Carolina; born in Salisbury, Rowan County,
North Carolina, on July 29, 1936; B.A., Duke University 1958; M.A., Harvard
University 1960; J.D., Harvard University 1965; U.S. secretary of
transportation 1983-1987; U.S. secretary of labor 1989-1990; president,
American Red Cross 1991-2000; unsuccessful candidate for the Republican
presidential nomination in 2000; elected as a Republican to the U.S. Senate in
2002, and served from January 3, 2003, to January 3, 2009; chair, National
Republican Senatorial Committee (2005-2007); was an unsuccessful candidate for
reelection in 2008.
BibliographyDole, Elizabeth and Bob Dole.
Unlimited Partners: Our American Story. New York: Simon &
Schuster, 1996.
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