Beth Rickey
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Elizabeth Ann Rickey June 11, 1956 Lafayette, Louisiana, USA |
| Died | September 12, 2009 (aged 53) Santa Fe, New Mexico |
| Alma mater |
University of Louisiana at Lafayette |
| Occupation | Professor |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Single |
| Parent(s) | Horace B. Rickey and Flora Ann Womack Rickey |
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At the time of her death, Rickey was credited by many as the person in Louisiana most responsible for turning public opinion against the gubernatorial candidacy of the controversial David Duke. She gathered evidence of Duke's neo-Nazi connections.
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University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Elizabeth Ann Rickey, known as Beth Rickey (June 11, 1956 – September 12, 2009), was a Republican political activist from Louisiana who exposed the neo-Nazi connections of former State Representative David Duke, who ran for the U.S. Senate and for governor of Louisiana in 1990 and 1991, respectively, under the GOP label though opposed by the party leadership.
Rickey was born in Lafayette to Horace B. Rickey, Jr. (1901–1967), a veteran of World War II, and the former Flora Ann Womack (1921–1998). Rickey, who was single, had a brother, Robert Harper Rickey and his wife, Karen Elizabeth Rickey, of Devon, England.
An uncle, Branch Rickey, was a Major League Baseball executive who in 1947 signed Jackie Robinson to play for the Brooklyn Dodgers, the first black player so designated.
Rickey's family was Republican. Horace Rickey was the early 1960s the secretary of the Louisiana Republican State Central Committee on which his daughter would later be a member. The Rickeys supported both Barry Goldwater in 1964 and Ronald Reagan in 1980 and 1984 for President. She received her Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts in government at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. She taught government at Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond until she entered Ph.D. studies at Tulane University.
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