Dixy Lee Ray
Dixy Lee Ray was an American academic, scientist, and politician who served as the 17th governor of Washington from 1977 to 1981. Variously described as idiosyncratic and "ridiculously smart," she was the state's first female governor and was in office during the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens.
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- Born in
- Tacoma
- Educated at
- Stanford UniversityMills College at Northeastern UniversityStadium High School
- Awards
- 🏆 Guggenheim Fellowship🏆 William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement🏆 United Nations Peace Medal🏆 Ladies' Home Journal Women of the Year
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Rolf Ling Bolin
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1914
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Birth1994
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