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| Name | Emory A. Hebard |
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Barton, Vermont , United States |
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September 28, 1917
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| Died | November 01, 1993
(76 years)
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| Contributor | Joshua L. |
| Last Modifed | BrentinCO
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| Info | Barton (Glover?) was home to the legendary Emory A. Hebard, who served as the Vermont State Treasurer for 12 years. Emory was born in Carmel, Maine on September 28, 1917 and died on November 1, 1993 at the age of 76 following complications from a heart attack. He also served for 16 years in the Vermont House of Representatives, beginning in 1960 and serving on the two most powerful money committees, the Ways and Means Panel and the Appropriations Committee. Using the slogan, "Thrift is still a virtue" he ran in 1976 for State Treasurer. Emory appeared to be what he was, a small town storeowner, but he had an unusual, razor sharp mind, adept at understanding world finance. Few knew that he was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate from Middlebury College in 1938, or even that he subsequently worked for an agency of FDR's New Deal in Washington, D.C. Born in Maine, he came to Vermont first to attend Middlebury and graduated in 1938. He served as a Lt. Commander in the US Coast Guard from 1942-45 during WWII, and from 50-52 during the Korean Conflict. He owned and operated Emory's Country Store in E. Charleston from 1947 to 50 and Emory's Country Store in Glover from 1952 to 63. He also served as the E. Charleston postmaster. When Chris Braithwaite opened the Chronicle in 1973, Emory gave him the advice that "You'll get to handle a lot of money, but you won't get to keep any of it." Emory also wrote to Chris, "Why not let motorcyclists ride without helmets, as long as they would sign a release promising that they would never ever rely on tax dollars to cover medical expenses, if they bash their brains out against a bridge abutment?" He married Irma Mills on March 30, 1941. She died on April 11, 1992, and on September 25, 1993 he married Edith Cameron, who survives him. Also surviving him are his daughter Sammy, her husband Colonel Wendel Ryan of Williston and their children, Major Matthew Hedger of Japan, Sarah English of Boston, and Adam Hedger of South Burlington, and his brother Reverend Alden Hebard of Des Moines, Iowa, and four great grandchildren. He is buried at Westlook Cemetary in Glover.
Emory was a Republican in the Vermont tradition (a philosophy of independence shaped by U.S. Senators Ralph Flanders, Warren Austin, George Aiken, and Governor Dean Davis) with a strong sense of bipartisanship. Regarding the court ordered move in the 1960's requiring the state to reapportion the House, ending the one-town, one-vote system that had favored rural communities, he said "It's the worst thing that happened to the State of Vermont." He then led the 1965 reapportionment that swept away Vermont's one-town, one-vote House of Representatives. He told the House, "better do the job ourselves and keep the courts out of it". In 1979, the legislative committee tried to give Emory a 11% salary increase. As state treasurer, he refused, saying that elected officials shouldn't receive more than rank-and-file workers, whose pay was going up 5.5% that year.
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