Jane Hadley Barkley
Elizabeth Jane Rucker Hadley Barkley ( born September 23, 1911 in Keytesville, Chariton County, Missouri, † September 6, 1964 in Washington DC) was a Second Lady of the United States. She was the second wife of Vice President albums W. Barkley. She was known as Jane Hadley Barkley.
Early life
Jane Rucker's father was a lawyer, his mother a pianist who had studied in Europe. She married her first husband, the lawyer Carleton Hadley, in 1931. She had met him at Washington University in St. Louis. He was a prominent lawyer for the railroad. They had two daughters together. Carleton Hadley died in 1944 at the age of 42 years.
Marriage to Vice President Barkley
Jane Hadley married Vizepräsdident Barkley, also a widower, on 18 November 1949. She was his second wife. At the time of marriage Barkley was 34 years older than her. He was 71 and she 37 Barkley's first wife, Dorothy, died in 1947. Until her wooing Barkley Hadley was a Republican. In 1940, she worked in the Republican presidential candidate Wendell Willkie office in St. Louis. When her milk man expressed his preference for President Franklin D. Roosevelt, she left a note this: "No Willkie, No milkie ".
After meeting with the young widow at a party in Washington in May 1949, the Vice President campaigned ardently for them. He was not deterred by her political setting or the long distance to her home in St. Louis. The Vice President began with regular stops by plane in St. Louis. His Advertise attracted national attention. She lived in a seven -room apartment in the renowned area of Central West End of St. Louis, close to both Washington University and the Forest Park. They also had an estate in St. Charles County near St. Louis.
On 31 October 1949, she announced her engagement. They were married three weeks later, on November 18, in St. Louis. There were so many well-wishers that the couple had trouble with the vintage car cabriolet, which he had given her, to get through the streets. On the question of the politics of his wife, the Vice President said: "She got swept off her feet by Willkie, but now she's back in the fold. "
Her husband retired in 1953 from the post of Vice- President is elected. He was elected in 1954 for another term in the U.S. Senate, where he served until his death in 1956.
Death
After Barkley's death 343 444 dollars income taxes were demanded for his possession. This payment is due based on an examination of the IRS, who had found out that Barkley had several years does not pay his taxes. Again, widow, Jane Barkley took a job as a secretary at George Washington University. She has published in 1958 a memorandum at Vanguard Publishers in New York, entitled " I Married the Veep ". At the time of her death from a heart attack in 1964, she was still at university in Washington DC employed.