Block, Upload, Automoderated users, edit, move, protect, rollback
57,799
edits
Changes
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Line 29:
Line 29: − + − + − + − +
→Political activities
==Political activities==
==Political activities==
In 1972, Mills was a delegate to the 1972 [[Republican National Convention]] in Miami Beach, [[Florida]], in which she joined the unanimous Arkansas members in ratifying the re-nomination of the [[Richard Nixon|Nixon]]-[[Spiro T. Agnew|Agnew]] ticket.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mills.html#24600V0EV|title=Ada Mills|publisher=politicalgraveyard.com|accessdate=September 8, 2010}}</ref>
In 1972, Mills was a delegate to the 1972 [[Republican National Convention]] in Miami Beach, [[Florida]], in which she joined the unanimous Arkansas members in ratifying the re-nomination of the [[Richard Nixon|Nixon]]-[[Spiro T. Agnew|Agnew]] ticket.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mills.html#24600V0EV|title=Ada Mills|publisher=politicalgraveyard.com|accessdate=September 8, 2010}}</ref>
Eight years later in 1980, she committed initially to Nixon's former [[United States Secretary of the Treasury|treasury secretary]], John Connally, before finally joining her Arkansas delegation to support the Reagan-[[George Herbert Walker Bush|Bush]] ticket, which prevailed in Arkansas. The original Arkansas count had been seven for Reagan, four for [[U.S. Senator]] [[Howard Baker]], of [[Tennessee]], two for Bush, five uncommitted, and Mills' backing of Connally. Along with Mills, the Arkansas delegation at the 1980 Republican National Convention, which met in [[Detroit]], [[Michigan]], included [[U.S. Representative]]s [[John Paul Hammerschmidt]] and Edwin Ruthvin Bethune, Jr., party chairman [[Lynn Lowe]], national committeeman [[Harlan "Bo" Holleman]], and party legal counsel James Burnett.<ref>''Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report,'' February 23, 1980, p. 572; July 12, 1980, p. 1928.</ref><ref>''Arkansas Outlook'' (Republican Party newsletter), March 1979.</ref>
Eight years later in 1980, she committed initially to Nixon's former [[United States Secretary of the Treasury|treasury secretary]], John Connally, before finally joining her Arkansas delegation to support the Reagan-[[George Herbert Walker Bush|Bush]] ticket, which prevailed in Arkansas. The original Arkansas count had been seven for Reagan, four for [[U.S. Senator]] [[Howard Baker]], of [[Tennessee]], two for Bush, five uncommitted, and Mills' backing of Connally. Along with Mills, the Arkansas delegation at the 1980 Republican National Convention, which met in [[Detroit]], [[Michigan]], included [[U.S. Representative]]s [[John Paul Hammerschmidt]] and Edwin Ruthvin Bethune, Jr., party chairman [[Lynn Lowe]], national committeeman [[Harlan "Bo" Holleman]], and party legal counsel James Burnett.<ref>''Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report,'' February 23, 1980, p. 572; July 12, 1980, p. 1928.</ref><ref>''Arkansas Outlook'' (Republican Party newsletter), March 1979.</ref>
In 2000, she was awarded the Republican Party's Eagle Award for fifty years of work in the establishment of a two-party system in historically [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] state.<ref name=obit/>
In 2000, she was awarded the Republican Party's Eagle Award for fifty years of work in the establishment of a two-party system in historically [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] state.<ref name=obit/>