Anne Stuart Batchelder

Background

Batchelder, Anne Stuart was born on January 11, 1920 in Lake Forest, Illinois, United States. Daughter of Robert Douglas and Harriet (McClure) Stuart.

Education

Student Lake Forest College, 1941-1943.

Career

Clubmobile driver, American Red Cross, England, Belgium, France, Holland and Germany, 1943-1945; public, editor, Douglas County Gazette, 1970-1975, 79-90. Board directors Firstier Bank Omaha. Director, treasurer United States Checkbook Committee Member Republican Control Committee Nebraska, 1955-1962, 70-83, vice chairman Control Committee, 1959-1964, chairman, 1975-1979, member finance committee, 1957-1964.

Chairman women's section Douglas County Republican Finance Committee, 1995, vice Chairman of Commission, 1958-1960. Vice president Omaha Woman's Republican Club, 1957-1958, president, 1959-1960. Alternate delegate National Convention, 1956, 72, delegate, 1980, 84, 88.

Member Republican National Committee for Nebraska, 1964-1970. Assistant chairman Douglas County Republican Control Committee, 1971-1974. 1st vice president Nebraska Federation Republican Women, 1971-1972, president, 1972-1974.

Chairman Nebraska Republican Committee, 1975-1979. Vice-chairman Bun & Ling, National Federation Republican Women, since 1998. Member Nebraska State Building Commission, 1979-1983.

Republican candidate for lieutenant governor, 1974.

Achievements

• Anne Stuart Batchelder has been listed as a noteworthy publisher, political party official by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Senior vice president Nebraska Founders Day, 1958. Trustee Hastings College, since 1977. Board directors Young Women’s Christian Association, 1983-1989, Omaha Library.

Foundation, 1991-2000, Library. Foundation, since 2000. Past trustee Brownell Hall, Visiting Nurse Association.

Past president Nebraska chapter Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge. Chairman finance George Bush for President, Nebraska, 1987-1988. Appointed Kennedy Center Performing Arts, 1989, 94, President' Advisory Committee on the Arts, 1990-1992, National Committee for the Performing Arts, since 1992.

Member Nebraska Republican State Finance Committee, 1990, National Finance Committee Bush-Quayle, 1992. Active Omaha Methodist Hospital Foundation, Brownell-Talbot School Foundation. Member Uta Halee Home for Girls, since 1980.

Member Mayflower Society, Colonial Dames, Philanthropic Educational Organization (P.E.O.), National League Pen Women Omaha Country, Omaha, Halee Spirit of Youth.

Connections

Married Clifton Brooks Batchelder, May 26, 1945. Children: Edward, Anne Stuart, Mary Clifton, Lucia Brooks.

Father:

Robert Douglas Stuart

Mother:

Harriet (McClure) Stuart

Spouse:

Clifton Brooks Batchelder

child:

Lucia Brooks Batchelder

child:

Mary Clifton Batchelder

child:

Edward Batchelder

child:

Anne Stuart Batchelder