Virginia Knauer

Virginia Knauer

Infobox Person


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name = Virginia Harrington Knauer
birth_date = March 28, 1915 (age 93)
birth_place = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Virginia Harrington Knauer (née Wright) (b. March 28 1915) is a former U.S. politician. She was the first woman elected to the Philadelphia City Council, and chief consumer advisor to Pennsylvania Governor Raymond P. Shafer, then to Presidents Richard Nixon (she was the first to hold the post of U.S. Consumer Advocate) and Gerald Ford (1969-1977) and later to Ronald Reagan (1981-1983). She is also the mentor, and a good friend of North Carolina Senior Senator Elizabeth Dole..

She was born and grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where her father was a professor of accounting at Temple University. She was educated at the Philadelphia High School for Girls, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the University of Pennsylvania (graduated 1937); she also attended the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, Italy. Her late husband, Wilhelm F. Knauer, a lawyer, served as Deputy Attorney of Pennsylvania. They had one son, Judge Wilhelm F. Knauer, Jr. (deceased), one daughter, Valerie Knauer Burden, and three granddaughters, Virginia Burden, Francis Burden, and Nancy J. Knauer.

External links

* [http://afgw.libraries.psu.edu/profiles/knauer.html Brief bio at Penn State Libraries]


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