Smith, Virginia Dodd (1911–2006)
Smith, Virginia Dodd (1911–2006)
American politician. Born Virginia Dodd in Randolph, Fremont County, Iowa, June 30, 1911; died Jan 23, 2006, in Sun City, Arizona; graduate of University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 1936; m. a Nebraska wheat farmer.
Republican US congressional representative from Nebraska, chaired the women's bureau of American Farm Bureau Federation (1955–74) and was active in American Country Life Association; was a member of US Department of Agriculture's Home Economics Research Advisory Committee (1950–60); was active in Nebraska Republican Party, serving as a delegate to Republican National conventions (1956–72); was appointed a delegate to White House Conference on Children and Youth (1960); served on US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare's Clearinghouse on Rural Education and Small Schools Advisory Board (1972–74); served on US Department of Commerce's Census Advisory Committee on Agricultural Statistics (1973); won election as a representative from Nebraska to 94th Congress (1975), and was reelected to 7 succeeding terms; became the ranking Republican member of the Subcommittee on Rural Development, Agriculture and Related Agencies, and worked assiduously to promote the interests of farmers and ranchers; retired (1991).