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Elsie Hillman (Elsie Hilliard) was born on 9 December, 1925 in Fox Chapel, Pennsylvania, US, is an Elsie Hilliard Hillman was Pittsburgh. Discover Elsie Hillman's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 89 years old?

Popular As Elsie Hilliard
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Age 89 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 9 December 1925
Birthday 9 December
Birthplace Fox Chapel, Pennsylvania, US
Date of death 4 August, 2015
Died Place Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US
Nationality United States

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1925

Elsie Hilliard Hillman (December 9, 1925 – August 4, 2015) was a Pittsburgh based philanthropist and a former Republican National Committeewoman.

She was the wife of billionaire industrialist Henry Hillman.

During her life, Hillman helped to advance the careers of a number of moderate Republican politicians to state and national offices.

Among the politicians whose careers she fostered are President George H. W. Bush, Senator John Heinz, and Pennsylvania governors Dick Thornburgh and Tom Ridge.

She worked with Democrats and Republicans on civil rights, women’s rights, and jobs in the Pittsburgh region.

Known for her down-to-earth nature and sense of humor, Pittsburghers regularly encountered "Elsie" in her signature headband, as she was active as a philanthropist and civic leader in the city and region.

Hillman was born in Fox Chapel, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Pittsburgh, to Thomas Jones Hilliard and Marianna Talbott Hilliard.

She was raised in the Fox Chapel and Hampton Township areas of Allegheny County before her family moved into the City of Pittsburgh.

Hillman's mother served on the boards of non-profit organizations, volunteered to spot aircraft over Pittsburgh during WWII, and headed up the citywide effort to raise money to buy mobile kitchens and hospital equipment for war-bombed England.

Elsie Hillman began her own volunteering by cleaning instruments for surgeries at Eye and Ear Hospital in Pittsburgh, selling War Bonds, and knitting socks for soldiers.

During her elementary and upper school years, Hillman attended the Ellis School in Pittsburgh and the Ethel Walker School in Connecticut.

After she graduated from high school, Hillman went to Westminster Choir College in Princeton, N.J. to study piano and voice.

(Her grandmother, Catherine Hauk Talbott, founded the college, which now is part of Rider University.) By then, she had fallen in love with Henry Hillman, a U.S. Navy pilot whom she had met years earlier in Pittsburgh.

1945

They were wed in 1945.

The Hillmans lived in New York and Texas, returning to the City of Pittsburgh at the end of the war.

Hillman first ventured into politics as a young woman, campaigning for Republican presidential candidate Dwight D. Eisenhower because she saw him as a war hero.

1960

After Ike’s successful campaigns, Hillman remained involved in the Republican party during the 1960s as a volunteer at the local level.

Her work in Pittsburgh and Allegheny County caused her to see how few African American men or women were involved in her party, so she arranged to meet with the county party chairman to raise the issue.

He suggested that she meet Wendell Freeland, an African American lawyer and Tuskegee Airman, to team-up to recruit more volunteers and candidates from the city’s African American community.

Hillman and Freeland did this, going on to organize neighborhoods across the City of Pittsburgh and becoming lifelong friends through political and civic work that spanned decades.

Their work took Hillman into neighborhoods of Pittsburgh and the county she had never been.

It was during this period that she developed her connections with African American leaders as well as a sense of outrage about the civil rights being denied to Black Americans.

She volunteered for the board of directors of several traditionally African American organizations, including the Hill House Association, and began to speak publicly for civil rights.

1962

Hillman and Freeland were able to reach African American voters in ways that the party had not before Never a Spectator and they organized large-scale events, including a 17,000-person rally for William Scranton when he ran for governor; Scranton was elected in 1962.

1964

Because of Scranton’s moderate views and strong support of Civil Rights legislation, Hillman backed his candidacy during the 1964 Republican presidential primary in San Francisco (after having worked actively for Nelson Rockefeller, who withdrew from the race).

She witnessed the poor treatment of African American Republican delegates by some of those who opposed Scranton.

Scranton ultimately lost the nomination to Senator Barry Goldwater, who would go on to be defeated in the general election by Lyndon Johnson.

Hillman worked to elect Senator Hugh Scott, who had led the Republican National Committee and would rise to the position of Senate Minority Leader.

1967

With Scott’s encouragement, she ran for the position of chair of the Allegheny County Republican Party and was elected to the job in 1967—the first woman elected to head the party of an urban area.

It was during her time as party chair that she worked to field winning candidates and develop connections with her counterparts across the state of Pennsylvania, including the members of the Republican State Committee of Pennsylvania.

During and after her tenure as party chair, Hillman worked to advance moderate candidates who supported civil rights and women’s rights—urging them to run, helping them to organize their campaigns (often staffing them, as a volunteer), and connecting them with the leaders of organized labor and other influential groups.

She and her family made extensive contributions to campaigns as well, eventually establishing a political action committee to support moderate candidates.

She was also known as a supporter of abortion rights.

1975

In 1975, the State Committee of Pennsylvania elected Hillman to the Republican National Committee (RNC).

1980

She had already registered as a Republican—both because of family tradition and the party’s support for women, including the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) (which the party supported in its platform until 1980).

She work on George H. W. Bush's 1980 campaign and helped him win the Pennsylvania primary.

Ronald Reagan won the party nomination, but Bush was his vice-presidential running mate.

1982

She was honored as "Woman of the Year" for 1982 by Vectors/Pittsburgh.

1996

She served as a national committeewoman until 1996.

2002

In 2002, she was named to the PoliticsPA list of "Sy Snyder's Power 50."