Background
Belchice was born in Tiffin in Seneca County in northern Ohio.
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Harriet Belchic
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Her family moved to Winnfield, the seat of Winn Parish in north Louisiana, where she graduated from Winnfield High School.
Career
She served on the Shreveport Women"s Commission and the Louisiana Federation of Republican Women. Early life and education
An advocate of a two-party system, Belchic was vice-chairman of the Louisiana Republican Party from 1962–1968. She held a seat on the party"s 144-member State Central Committee for more than twenty years.
She was elected as a delegate to numerous Republican national conventions.
She was a southern floor leader for then United States. Senator Barry M. Goldwater of Arizona at the 1964 Republican National Convention in San Francisco, California. Belchic was district chairman of Women for Nixon in 1968 and was an alternate delegate for George Herbert Walker Bush in 1988 and the 1992.
Active in local civic affairs, Belchic was appointed by Democratic Mayor John B. Hussey and Republican Mayor Hazel F. Beard to the Shreveport Women"s Commission, having served from 1988 to 1994. Beard also named her to the Riverfront Redevelopment Advisory Committee.
Membership
She became a member of the Shreveport Women"s Republican Club in 1954.
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Nationality
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Political Party
Republican party