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| Affiliation | Republican |
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| Name | Mary Brooks |
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, Idaho , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
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November 01, 1907
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| Died | February 11, 2002
(94 years)
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| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
| Last Modifed | RBH
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| Info | Mary Brooks, Idaho |Sep. 1969 - Feb. 1977Director of the U.S. Mint (1969-77). In Washington, D.C., where her father was serving as a U.S. senator from Idaho, she met Illinois Sen. C. Wayland “Curly” Brooks (1897-1957), whom she married in 1945.After Brooks left the Senate in 1948, the couple moved to Chicago. She became an Illinois Republican National Committee woman and in 1960 was elected vice chairwoman of the National Committee. In 1963, she returned to Idaho where she was appointed to the state Senate.She returned to Washington in 1969 after she was chosen U.S. Mint director by Pres. Richard Nixon. She was responsible for the historic changing of the faces on the dollar to Eisenhower, the half-dollar to Kennedy, and the flip side of the quarter to the Bicentennial motif.
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