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Name: Ethel Beavers
Gender: Female
Age and DOB: 76 years-old - October 30, 1930
Hometown: Rockingham, NH
Party: Republican
Current Residence: Manchester, NH
Political Party: Republican
Occupation: Courthouse Clerk

Background: Ethel Beavers was born on October 30, 1930 to a strong Irish Catholic family, who would later be a strong influence on her life, she had 3 brothers and one sister - two of the brothers were ran over by a train when she was just 8 years-old. Seeing her father work hard in a local in Amoskeag Manufacturing in Manchester, she would live her life seeing the power of men, and would continue to praise men for demonstrating their strength throughout her life and being there when she needed them. Ethel would graduate West High School with hopes to get into law, where she and all of the other men would be working together, like she wanted it.

Ethel would get into Dartmouth College where she would get a degree in law in 1953 by having "perks" by hanging around with the ever-powerful president of Dartmouth at the time. She would begin her work as a clerk at David & Son's Practice at Law where she would check in many men and women coming back and forth in the practice, where she would meet the local politicians, including future governors. After spending just short of 5 years at the firm, she would meet her husband, Jeffrey Beavers in May of 1958, and would have 9 children, (6 boys, 3 girls) one would die shortly after their 4th birthday due to complications of malaria. The death of her child would hit her hard, and she would be unemployed for almost 2 years, and would live off the income of her husband, who was in charge of a local home loaning association.

One day, a letter came to Beaver's door where she had a letter from the Former Vice Mayor of Manchester recommending her to run for city council. After deep consideration with her husband and now, 8 children, she initiated her run for city council - as a Republican - in 1964. She was the first woman to be on city council. She fought against the Women's Liberation Movement of the late 60s and early 70s, along with being a strategist for president Reagan in the 1980 and 1984 presidential campaign in the state of New Hampshire. In 1996, she was unseated in the GOP primary. Now, she works as a clerk at the local courthouse.

Political Record: Lifelong-Republican, served as City Council Woman for Ward 3 from 1964-1996, Reagan election re-election campaign for New Hampshire, Goldwater delegate in the 1964 RNC & Goldwater volunteer, Director of the New Hampshire campaign for televangelist- Pat Robertson in 1988, Manchester Director of Pat Buchanan campaign in 1992, worked on the New Hampshire campaign for Bob Dole in 1996, Head of the New Hampshirites for Bush/Cheyney in 2004

Visual Description: 4'11, Grey-long, hair, wears bifocals, heavy-set, wrinkly-face, wears lots of skirts and sweaters, has butterfly lapel pin