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Dirksen's wife, the former Louella Carver, played a strong role in his election victories.<ref name=wapo>Pearson, Richard (July 17, 1979). [https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1979/07/17/colorful-louella-dirksen-campaigned-for-senator-husband/d016e968-6b9f-43a2-b013-17dcda306fe6/ Colorful Louella Dirksen, Campaigned for Senator Husband]. ''The Washington Post''. Retrieved June 19, 2021.</ref> She traveled across the country during the [[1954 Midterm Elections|1954 midterms]] as the spokesperson for the National Federation of Republican Women's GOP Election Express, and was described by a secretary to her husband as:<ref name=wapo/>
Dirksen's wife, the former Louella Carver, played a strong role in his election victories.<ref name=wapo>Pearson, Richard (July 17, 1979). [https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1979/07/17/colorful-louella-dirksen-campaigned-for-senator-husband/d016e968-6b9f-43a2-b013-17dcda306fe6/ Colorful Louella Dirksen, Campaigned for Senator Husband]. ''The Washington Post''. Retrieved June 19, 2021.</ref> She traveled across the country during the [[1954 Midterm Elections|1954 midterms]] as the spokesperson for the National Federation of Republican Women's GOP Election Express, and was described by a secretary to her husband as:<ref name=wapo/>
{{cquote|...the lady with whom I got caught playing gin rummy on election day, 1950, when the preacher came to the Dirksen home to visit . . . the lady who shared the back of a truck with Dick Gregory in South Chicago in a rainstorm one night in 1962, and who made a wonderful speech for her husband . . . and the lady who was positively uncanny in bringing her leader back on the beam whenever he started flying too high.}}
{{cquote|...the lady with whom I got caught playing gin rummy on election day, 1950, when the preacher came to the Dirksen home to visit . . . the lady who shared the back of a truck with Dick Gregory in South Chicago in a rainstorm one night in 1962, and who made a wonderful speech for her husband . . . and the lady who was positively uncanny in bringing her leader back on the beam whenever he started flying too high.}}
His daughter Joy Dirksen was married to [[Howard Baker]] until her death in 1993 due to cancer.<ref>UPI Archives (April 25, 1993). [https://www.upi.com/Archives/1993/04/25/Joy-Baker-dead-at-64/6787735710400/ Joy Baker dead at 64]. ''United Press International''. Retrieved June 19, 2021.</ref><ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1993/04/26/civic-activist-joy-baker-senate-leaders-wife-dies/671d7e3b-9062-404d-9df0-414c082a128d/]. ''The Washington Post''. Retrieved June 19, 2021.</ref>
==See also==
==See also==