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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—NevadaVUCANOVICH, Barbara Farrell
(1921—)
VUCANOVICH, Barbara Farrell, a Representative from Nevada; born Barbara Farrell in Camp Dix, New Jersey, June 22, 1921; attended Miss Quinn’s School, Albany, N.Y.; graduated from Albany Academy for Girls, Albany, N.Y., 1938; attended, Manhattan College of Sacred Heart, New York, N.Y., 1938-1939; businesswoman; staff, United States Senator Paul Laxalt of Nevada, 1974-1982; delegate, Republican National Convention, 1976 and 1980; elected as a Republican to the Ninety-eighth and to the six succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1983-January 3, 1997); not a candidate for reelection to the One Hundred Fifth Congress in 1996; member of the White House Commission to Select White House Fellows, 2002.
Bibliography
Vucanovich, Barbara F. and Patricia D. Cafferata. Barbara F. Vucanovich: From Nevada to Congress, and Back Again
. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2005.
”Barbara F. Vucanovich” in Women in Congress, 1917-1990.
Prepared under the direction of the Commission on the Bicentenary by the Office of the Historian, U.S. House of Representatives. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1991.
Vucanovich, Barbara. “A Conversation with Jefferson.” In A House of Ill Repute,
edited by Dan Renberg, 70-75. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1987.
Vucanovich, Barbara F. and Patricia D. Cafferata. Barbara F. Vucanovich: From Nevada to Congress, and Back Again
. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2005.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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