Nancy Palm
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Nancy Palm is a longtime Republican Party activist, primarily known as the chairwoman of the Harris County, Texas Republican Party during the 1970s{{Citation needed|date=January 2020}}, and who also received one vote favoring her as a candidate for Vice President of the United States.{{Citation needed|date=January 2020}}
In 1972 she was a delegate to the Republican National Convention;{{cite web|url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/female.N-P.html|title=Female Politicians in Texas, N-P|work=PoliticalGraveyard.com}} at the following 1976 Republican National Convention Palm became one of just three women to have received an unsuccessful nomination for Vice President within the Republican Party. She was credited with helping to create the Republican Party of Texas.{{cite web|url=https://www.texasobserver.org/2044-meet-the-fundies-here-are-a-few-of-the-texans-who-are-bringing-christian-fundamentalism-into-state-politics/|title=Meet the Fundies|work=Texas Observer|date=October 7, 2005}} Palm was one of the electors from Texas for the 2000 presidential election.{{cite web|url=http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0012/18/ip.00.html|title=President-elect Bush Makes the Rounds in Washington, Promises Congressional Democrats an Open Door|work=Inside Politics|publisher=CNN|format=Transcript|date=December 18, 2000}} In 2002 she was an honoree of the League of Women Voters of Houston, Texas{{cite web|url=http://lwvhouston.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/2019-Repast-Sponsor-Appeal-Letter-2-REVISED-Final.pdf|title=Revised 2019 copy of appeal letter with form|work=LWVHouston.org}} and the county government designated a day in her favor, along with her counterpart Billie Carr.{{cite web|url=http://www.co.harris.tx.us/agenda/2002/0202ag.pdf|title=Agenda|publisher=Harris County Commissioners Court|date=January 15, 2002|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131010140050/http://www.co.harris.tx.us/agenda/2002/0202ag.pdf|archivedate=October 10, 2013}}
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Further reading
- [http://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/A-0194/ Oral History Interview with Nancy Palm] at [http://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/ Oral Histories of the American South]
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Category:Female candidates for Vice President of the United States
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
Category:21st-century American women
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