Description:Chapters: Mary Brooks, Wendy Jaquet, Nicole Lefavour, Kate Kelly, Diane Bilyeu, Patti Anne Lodge. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 22. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Mary Elizabeth Thomas Peavey Brooks (November 1, 1907 - February 11, 2002) directed the United States Mint from September 1969 to February 1977. Brooks was appointed by President Richard M. Nixon, the third woman named to the post. During her administration, she oversaw the initiation of the Eisenhower dollar coin, as well as the redesign of Americas quarter, half dollar and dollar coins for the countrys bicentennial. She is also credited with saving the original San Francisco Mint building, known as the Granite Lady, by transferring it to the Treasury Department. The building, one of the few to survive the Great Earthquake of 1906, had been vacant since 1937 and fallen into disrepair. It is now both a National Historic Landmark and a California Historic Landmark. The city planned in 2002 to turn it into a museum to commemorate the historical significance of the U.S. Mint in San Francisco. Brooks received the I Left My Heart In San Francisco Award in 1974 from the San Francisco Convention and Visitors Bureau for her preservation efforts. In addition, Brooks was awarded the American Numismatic Associations Medal of Merit in 1988, and was the first woman to receive the Alexander Hamilton Award, the U.S. Treasury Department's highest honor. She was inducted into the University of Idaho Alumni Associations Hall of Fame in 1970. The university also conferred upon her an honorary doctorate in 1999. Brooks was born to John and Florence Thomas on November 1, 1907, in Colby, Kansas. Her parents moved to Gooding, Idaho, when she was an infant. Her father, John W. Thomas, was appointed a U.S. Senator from Idaho twice (followi...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=1790809We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Women State Legislators in Idaho: Mary Brooks, Wendy Jaquet, Nicole Lefavour, Kate Kelly, Diane Bilyeu, Patti Anne Lodge. To get started finding Women State Legislators in Idaho: Mary Brooks, Wendy Jaquet, Nicole Lefavour, Kate Kelly, Diane Bilyeu, Patti Anne Lodge, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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24
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2010
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1158601085
Women State Legislators in Idaho: Mary Brooks, Wendy Jaquet, Nicole Lefavour, Kate Kelly, Diane Bilyeu, Patti Anne Lodge
Description: Chapters: Mary Brooks, Wendy Jaquet, Nicole Lefavour, Kate Kelly, Diane Bilyeu, Patti Anne Lodge. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 22. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Mary Elizabeth Thomas Peavey Brooks (November 1, 1907 - February 11, 2002) directed the United States Mint from September 1969 to February 1977. Brooks was appointed by President Richard M. Nixon, the third woman named to the post. During her administration, she oversaw the initiation of the Eisenhower dollar coin, as well as the redesign of Americas quarter, half dollar and dollar coins for the countrys bicentennial. She is also credited with saving the original San Francisco Mint building, known as the Granite Lady, by transferring it to the Treasury Department. The building, one of the few to survive the Great Earthquake of 1906, had been vacant since 1937 and fallen into disrepair. It is now both a National Historic Landmark and a California Historic Landmark. The city planned in 2002 to turn it into a museum to commemorate the historical significance of the U.S. Mint in San Francisco. Brooks received the I Left My Heart In San Francisco Award in 1974 from the San Francisco Convention and Visitors Bureau for her preservation efforts. In addition, Brooks was awarded the American Numismatic Associations Medal of Merit in 1988, and was the first woman to receive the Alexander Hamilton Award, the U.S. Treasury Department's highest honor. She was inducted into the University of Idaho Alumni Associations Hall of Fame in 1970. The university also conferred upon her an honorary doctorate in 1999. Brooks was born to John and Florence Thomas on November 1, 1907, in Colby, Kansas. Her parents moved to Gooding, Idaho, when she was an infant. Her father, John W. Thomas, was appointed a U.S. Senator from Idaho twice (followi...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=1790809We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Women State Legislators in Idaho: Mary Brooks, Wendy Jaquet, Nicole Lefavour, Kate Kelly, Diane Bilyeu, Patti Anne Lodge. To get started finding Women State Legislators in Idaho: Mary Brooks, Wendy Jaquet, Nicole Lefavour, Kate Kelly, Diane Bilyeu, Patti Anne Lodge, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.