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Ivy Baker Priest (Ivy Baker) was born on 7 September, 1905 in Kimberly, Utah, U.S., is an American politician. Discover Ivy Baker Priest'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 70 years old?

Popular As Ivy Baker
Occupation miscellaneous
Age 70 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 7 September 1905
Birthday 7 September
Birthplace Kimberly, Utah, U.S.
Date of death 23 June, 1975
Died Place Santa Monica, California, U.S.
Nationality United States

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Her husband is Roy Fletcher Priest Sidney Stevens

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1905

Ivy Baker Priest (September 7, 1905 – June 23, 1975) was an American politician who served as Treasurer of the United States from 1953 to 1961 and California State Treasurer from 1967 to 1975.

Priest was born in Kimberly, Utah, on September 7, 1905, to Clara Fernley and Orange D. Baker.

Her father worked as a gold miner in Kimberly and later as a copper miner in the town of Bingham Canyon, while her mother ran a boarding house.

She was active in politics from high school, when she worked to register voters in a mayoral campaign.

1932

Priest was a delegate to the GOP state convention in 1932 and ran unsuccessfully for Congress in Utah on the Republican ticket in 1934.

1934

From 1934 to 1936, Priest was elected as Regional Co-Chair of the Young Republican National Federation.

1935

On December 7, 1935, she married Roy Fletcher Priest in Salt Lake City, Utah.

1944

Beginning in 1944, she served for several years as Utah's Republican National Committeewoman and, in 1950, ran for Congress in Utah again and lost for a second time.

During Dwight D. Eisenhower's campaign for President of the United States, Priest took charge of the women's division of the Republican National Committee and was credited with the successful drive to get out the women's vote, which totaled 52 percent of Eisenhower's victory margin.

1953

She served as Treasurer of the United States under President Eisenhower from January 28, 1953, to January 29, 1961, during which time her signature appeared on all U.S. currency.

1954

On August 29, 1954, Priest was the featured guest on What's My Line?.

The recording is available on YouTube.

1959

He died on June 11, 1959, in Arlington, Virginia.

1960

Ivy Baker Priest was the mother of Hollywood actress Pat Priest, best known for her portrayal of 'Marilyn Munster'on the 1960's television comedy: 'The Munster's'.

On March 17, 1960 she was also featured on Take a Good Look with Ernie Kovacs.

Priest was the mother of Pat Priest, an actress best known for playing Marilyn Munster in the 1960s television show The Munsters and appearing in the 1967 Paramount motion picture Easy Come, Easy Go with Elvis Presley.

1961

On June 20, 1961, she married Sidney William Stevens.

1966

In 1966 she was elected as a Republican to the office of California State Treasurer, narrowly unseating Democrat Bert A. Betts.

1967

In 1967, she became national chair of the Easter Seals.

1968

In 1968 she became the first woman to nominate a candidate for U.S. president for a major political party when she offered California Governor Ronald Reagan's name in a speech before the Republican National Convention.

(The convention chose Richard M. Nixon.)

She was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

1970

She was reelected to a second term in 1970 by a comfortable margin, but did not seek a third term due to declining health.

During her first term she was sued in her role as California State Treasury by John Serrano, a parent of a Los Angeles public school student, for California's inequitable system of funding public education.

1975

She died of cancer in Santa Monica, California on June 23, 1975.

She was buried in the Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Utah.

1976

This case, Serrano v. Priest, together with voter-approved Proposition 13 in 1976 led to a permanent change in California's education finance system; greatly reducing per-student spending disparities among California K-12 school districts.