BARBARA H. FRANKLIN

41. G.H.W. BUSH
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BORN:
March 19, 1940;
Lancaster, Pennsylvania

EDUCATION:
Pennsylvania State University, University Park (BA)
Harvard University (MBA)

POLITICAL PARTY:
Republican

HIGHLIGHTS:
1971-1973:
Staff Assistant to President Richard M. Nixon
1992-1993:
U.S. Secretary of Commerce

PORTRAIT:

Department of Commerce/ Smithsonian Institution

RESOURCES:

Barbara H. Franklin being sworn in as Secretary of Commerce on February 27, 1992. (Department of Commerce Photo)

Biography
Miller Center
Penn State University
Connecticut Women’s Hall of Fame
Nixon Library
Nixon Oral History, 3/7/2007 (Transcript, Video)
Nixon Oral History, 6/26/2007 (Transcript, Video)
Penn State Oral History Project
Barbara Franklin Enterprises
Wikipedia

MEDIA COVERAGE:

President Richard Nixon with Barbara H. Franklin (Nixon Library)

Nomination, 12/26/1991 (C-SPAN, NYT, LAT, LAT, Hartford Courant)

IMAGE GALLERY:

Barbara Franklin, staff assistant to President Richard Nixon, at her desk in the White House on April 12, 1971 (Nixon Library)
President Richard Nixon, Barbara Franklin, Dr. Herbert Stein, Dr. Marina von Neumann Whitman, and Dr. George Shultz, 1/29/1972 (National Archives)
President George H. W. Bush nominates Barbara Hackman Franklin as Commerce Secretary, December 1991
Secretary of Commerce Barbara H. Franklin with President George H.W. Bush (Department of Commerce Photo)
Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez with Former Secretary Barbara Franklin on 3/25/2005 (National Archives)

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