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Priest's signature, as used on American currency
Ivy Baker Priest (September 7, 1905 in Kimberly, Utah – June 23, 1975) was a politician. She served as United States Treasurer, January 28, 1953–January 29, 1961. She was later elected as a Republican to the office of California State Treasurer, serving two terms from 1967-1975. She had previously run for Congress in Utah on the Republican ticket in 1934 and 1950, losing both times. She is the mother of Pat Priest, an actress most famous for playing Marilyn Munster in the 1960s television show The Munsters.
Priest was a Latter-day Saint.[1]
[edit] 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 peoples' 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."
[edit] References
- ^ DC Indymedia: All Mormon and most Jewish senators keeping war going
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