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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Elizabeth Ann
"Beth" Rickey 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, Sr., a
veteran of World War II, and the former Flora Ann Womack. 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 African American so designated.
Rickey's family was Republican, having 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
