Dorothy Andrews Elston Kabis

Dorothy Andrews Elston Kabis
33rd Treasurer of the United States
In office May 8, 1969 – July 3, 1971
President	Richard M. Nixon
Preceded by	Kathryn E. Granahan
Succeeded by	Romana Acosta Bañuelos
Personal details
Born	Dorothy Andrews March 22, 1917 Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Died	July 3, 1971(1971-07-03) (aged 54) Sheffield, Massachusetts, U.S.
Political party	Republican
Spouse(s)	Russell Ransom Elston Walter Kabis
Religion	Methodist

Dorothy Andrews Elston Kabis (March 22, 1917 – July 3, 1971) was a Republican Party activist from the U.S. state of Delaware who was appointed the 33rd Treasurer of the United States, having served from May 8, 1969, until her death.

Elston Kabis was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, to Reginald Hastings Andrews and the former Mabel Aston. She was attending Maryville College in Maryville, Tennessee when she married Russell Ransom Elston (1911–1975) in 1936. The couple divorced in 1960. During the 1940s and 1950s, Elston worked in the legal department at the Du Pont Company in Wilmington, Delaware. After 1946, she also operated a nursery farm in Middletown.

Elston Kabis became active in Republican politics beginning with the Eisenhower administration. She worked in the Delaware office of the Farmers Home Administration from 1956–59. She was a delegate to the Republican National Conventions in 1956 and 1960, serving on the rules and platform committees. She was also a member of the Delaware Republican State Central Committee from 1954 to 1958.

Considered a moderate conservative, Elston endorsed Barry Goldwater for President in 1964 but thereafter announced that she preferred Governor Nelson Rockefeller of New York, considered the most liberal of serious Republican candidates. However, she supported Nixon's nomination at the convention in Miami Beach, Florida, and was rewarded with an appointment to the office of Treasurer of the United States, the fifth consecutive woman to hold the position.

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