Lynn Morley Martin

Lynn Morley Martin ( born December 26, 1939 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American businesswoman who was active as a politician for the Republican Party earlier. Among other things, she was working as a minister to the U.S. Cabinet.

After attending school and a bachelor's degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana in 1960 Lynn Martin began her professional career as a teacher in the school district of Rockford. During this time she was a member of the legislature of Winnebago County. In 1977 she was elected to the House of Representatives from Illinois; In 1979 she moved to the state Senate.

In January 1981, the Republican for Illinois moved into the U.S. House of Representatives. The voters, they confirmed four times; In 1990, she then did not occur for re-election and sought instead to a seat in the U.S. Senate. Martin ran against the Democratic incumbent Paul Simon and was considered quite rich in opportunity. Your chances dwindled, however, as they can about Simon's trademark, a fly, made ​​fun of in their ads. The senator defended ultimately with 65 percent of the vote his mandate; Lynn Martin was able to win a majority only in Edwards County and McHenry County.

Her political career was thus by no means finished. In 1991, she joined the succession of Elizabeth Dole as Secretary of Labor in the Cabinet of President George Bush. She had previously acquired its recognition, as they supported the then Vice-President in preparing for the televised debate with Democratic opponent candidate Geraldine Ferraro in advance of the presidential election in 1984. Bush drew Martin also in 1988, when he applied for the succession of Ronald Reagan as president, for the Vice - items considered, but ultimately opted for Senator Dan Quayle of Indiana.

After the electoral defeat of George Bush against Bill Clinton Lynn Martin retired in 1993 from her post from. In 1995, she was one briefly to the Republican candidates for the presidential election district in the following year, but then decided to retreat quickly after they had weighed their chances and detected no sufficient support for the candidacy.

After her political career Lynn Martin worked as a professor at the Business School of Northwestern University. Later she moved to the private sector and was among other things to the Board of Directors of the Company, AT & T, Constellation Energy and Procter & Gamble added.

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