Elizabeth first came to national attention in 1954. when she was elected Chair of the California Democratic Party. becoming the first woman in the United States to be elected chair of a major political party in any state. In a career that spanned more than half a century. Elizabeth worked prominently in the California presidential campaigns of Harry Truman. Adlai Stevenson. and Lyndon Johnson and served as the California CoChair of President Jimmy Carters 1976 Presidential campaign. Born on April 8. 1914. in Minnesota of immigrant parents. Elizabeth and her family moved to San Diego in the early 1920s. Following the collapse of her fathers business at the outset of the Great Depression.
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