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'''Ruth Laird Ulrich''' (born June 6, 1962)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylife.com/ruth-ulrich/e768742065738|title=Ruth Ulrich|publisher=Mylife.com|accessdate=September 13, 2017}}</ref> is a former [[Republican National Committee]]woman for [[Louisiana]].
'''Ruth Laird Ulrich''' (born June 6, 1962)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylife.com/ruth-ulrich/e768742065738|title=Ruth Ulrich|publisher=Mylife.com|accessdate=September 13, 2017}}</ref> is a former [[Republican National Committee]]woman for [[Louisiana]].
A former resident of Oxford, [[Mississippi]], Ulrich is a former radio producer, writer, and sometimes on-air replacement for [[conservative]] [[radio]] talk show host [[Moon Griffon]] (pronounced GRE FONN), who then broadcast statewide from his studio in [[Monroe, Louisiana|Monroe]] in Ouachita Parish in northeastern Louisiana; Griffon since moved his operation to [[Lafayette]], Louisiana. On February 23, 2008, Ulrich was elected as national committeewoman, a position which automatically made her a member of the Republican National Committee. She succeeded former State Representative [[Kay Katz|Kay Kellogg Katz]], also of Monroe, as the state's national committeewoman.
A former resident of Oxford, [[Mississippi]], Ulrich is a former radio producer, writer, and sometimes on-air replacement for [[conservative]] [[radio]] talk show host [[Moon Griffon]] (pronounced GRE FONN), who then broadcast statewide from his studio in [[Monroe, Louisiana|Monroe]] in Ouachita Parish in northeastern Louisiana. Griffon since moved his operation to [[Lafayette]]. On February 23, 2008, Ulrich was elected as national committeewoman, a position which automatically made her a member of the Republican National Committee. She succeeded former State Representative [[Kay Katz|Kay Kellogg Katz]], also of Monroe, as the state's national committeewoman.
In 2012, Ulrich lost her Representative District 16 seat on the Republican State Central Committee to former U.S. Representative John Cooksey, also of Monroe, by a vote of 620 (40.4 percent) to 913 (59.7 percent).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://staticresults.sos.la.gov/03242012/03242012_37.html|title=Louisiana primary election returns, March 24, 2012|publisher=staticresults.sos.la.gov|accessdate=November 29, 2012}}</ref>
In 2012, Ulrich lost her Representative District 16 seat on the Republican State Central Committee to former U.S. Representative John Cooksey, also of Monroe, by a vote of 620 (40.4 percent) to 913 (59.7 percent).<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, March 24, 2012.</ref>
In the general election held on November 17, 2007, Ulrich was defeated in a bid for the open District 5 seat on the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education. She polled 49,818 votes (48 percent) to Democrat Keith K. Guice's 54,550 (52 percent). The district includes seventeen parishes in north and central Louisiana. Guice, also of Monroe, carried the endorsement of the teacher organizations. He succeed the 15-year Democratic incumbent James Stafford. Guice led in eleven parishes. Ulrich prevailed in Grant, Jackson, La Salle, Rapides, Richland, and Union parishes.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://staticresults.sos.la.gov/11172007/11172007_MultiParish.html|title=Louisiana general election returns, November 17, 2007|publisher=staticresults.sos.la.gov|accessdate=November 29, 2012}}</ref>
In the general election held on November 17, 2007, Ulrich was defeated in a bid for the open District 5 seat on the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education. She polled 49,818 votes (48 percent) to Democrat Keith K. Guice's 54,550 (52 percent). The district includes seventeen parishes in north and central Louisiana. Guice, also of Monroe, carried the endorsement of the teacher organizations. He succeed the 15-year Democratic incumbent James Stafford. Guice led in eleven parishes. Ulrich prevailed in Grant, Jackson, La Salle, Rapides, Richland, and Union parishes.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://staticresults.sos.la.gov/11172007/11172007_MultiParish.html|title=Louisiana general election returns, November 17, 2007|publisher=staticresults.sos.la.gov|accessdate=November 29, 2012}}</ref>
Ulrich and her husband, Mark Burghardt Ulrich (September 20, 1959 – March 14, 2020), resided in Monroe.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylife.com/mark-ulrich/markbulrich|title=Mark Ulrich|publisher=Mylife.com|accessdate=September 13, 2017}}</ref> resided there until his death at the age of sixty on March 14, 2020.<ref>''The Moon Griffon Show,'' March 16, 2020.</ref> The couple married in 1986 and had a daughter, Laura. Acording to his obituary, Mark Ulrich, a Monroe native, attended the [[University of Mississippi]] at Oxford. His parents were Christian Andrew Ulrich (1924-2007), a Monroe physician and the chief of staff at St. Francis Medical Center who trained at [[Mayo Clinic]] in [[Minnesota]],<ref>{{cite web|url=
Ulrich and her husband, Mark Burghardt Ulrich (September 20, 1959 – March 14, 2020), resided in Monroe.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylife.com/mark-ulrich/markbulrich|title=Mark Ulrich|publisher=Mylife.com|accessdate=September 13, 2017}}</ref> resided there until his death at the age of sixty on March 14, 2020.<ref>''The Moon Griffon Show,'' March 16, 2020.</ref> The couple married in 1986 and had a daughter, Laura. Acording to his obituary, Mark Ulrich, a Monroe native, attended the [[University of Mississippi]] at Oxford. His parents were Christian Andrew Ulrich (1924-2007), a Monroe physician and the chief of staff at St. Francis Medical Center who trained at [[Mayo Clinic]] in [[Minnesota]],<ref>{{cite web|url=
https://old.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Ulrich&GSfn=Christian&GSmn=Andrew&GSby=1924&GSbyrel=in&GSdyrel=all&GSob=n&GRid=40917236&df=all&|title=Dr. Christian Andrew Ulrich|publisher=Old.findagrave.com|accessdate=March 17, 2020}}</ref> and the former Gayette Doris Spence (1927-2018), who was born in Cook County, [[Illinois]], reared in Dubuque, [[Iowa]], and was a nurse at [[Mayo Clinic]], where she met her husband. Mark Ulrich was a "lifelong supporter of the arts [who] felt it important to provide children, adults, and families a supportive and creative environment where no matter the age, one could find exposure to the classics of literature, art, theatre and music for the purpose of building character and strengthening virtues."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thenewsstar/obituary.aspx?n=mark-burghardt-ulrich&pid=195710543&fhid=12536&f=portal|title=Mark Ulrich obituary|publisher=''The Monroe News-Star''|date=March 16, 2020|accessdate=April 25, 2020}}</ref>
https://old.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Ulrich&GSfn=Christian&GSmn=Andrew&GSby=1924&GSbyrel=in&GSdyrel=all&GSob=n&GRid=40917236&df=all&|title=Dr. Christian Andrew Ulrich|publisher=Old.findagrave.com|accessdate=March 17, 2020}}</ref> and the former Gayette Doris Spence (1927-2018), who was born in Cook County, [[Illinois]], reared in Dubuque, [[Iowa]], and was a nurse at Mayo Clinic, where she met her husband.<ref name=markobit/>
Mark Ulrich was described as a "lifelong supporter of the arts [who] felt it important to provide children, adults, and families a supportive and creative environment where no matter the age, one could find exposure to the classics of literature, art, theatre and music for the purpose of building character and strengthening virtues."<ref name=markobit>{{cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thenewsstar/obituary.aspx?n=mark-burghardt-ulrich&pid=195710543&fhid=12536&f=portal|title=Mark Ulrich obituary|publisher=''The Monroe News-Star''|date=March 16, 2020|accessdate=April 25, 2020}}</ref>
Ruth Ulrich has two in-laws, Mark's siblings, Christine Bonds and husband Kenny of Moscow in Jefferson County, [[Arkansas]], and Thomas Andrew Ulrich and his wife, Catherine Jones Ulrich, both of whom are [[Presbyterian]] ministers in Akron, [[Ohio]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thenewsstar/obituary.aspx?n=gayette-doris-spence-ulrich&pid=187848460&fhid=25256|title=Gayette Ulrich obituary|publisher=''Monroe News-Star''|accessdate=January 15, 2018}}</ref>
Ruth Ulrich has two in-laws, Mark's siblings, Christine Bonds and husband Kenny of Moscow in Jefferson County, [[Arkansas]], and Thomas Andrew Ulrich and his wife, Catherine Jones Ulrich, both of whom are [[Presbyterian]] ministers in Akron, [[Ohio]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thenewsstar/obituary.aspx?n=gayette-doris-spence-ulrich&pid=187848460&fhid=25256|title=Gayette Ulrich obituary|publisher=''Monroe News-Star''|accessdate=January 15, 2018}}</ref>