Janet C. Rzewnicki | |
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Delaware State Treasurer | |
In office 1983–1999 | |
Preceded by | Tom Carper |
Succeeded by | Jack Markell |
Personal details | |
Born | Akron,Ohio,US | May 21,1953
Alma mater | University of Delaware |
Occupation | Politician,accountant |
Janet C. Rzewnicki (born May 21,1953) [1] is an American retired politician and businesswoman who served four consecutive four-year terms as Delaware State Treasurer,serving from 1983 to 1999. A member of the Republican Party,she also ran unsuccessfully for Delaware's at-large congressional seat and for the governorship during the 1990s.
Rzewnicki (pronounced Rez-nicky) [2] was born in Akron,Ohio,to Robert E. and Betty Ann Myers. [3] She graduated from the University of Delaware in 1978,receiving the College of Business and Economics' Alumni Award of Excellence in 1992. [4]
She worked as a certified public accountant and became politically active,initially as a Democrat who worked on Tom Carper's campaigns. In 1982,she switched parties and narrowly defeated New Castle County councilman Joseph Farley to become Delaware State Treasurer. [2] She went on to serve four consecutive four-year terms as state treasurer,from 1983 to 1999. [5]
Rzewnicki unsuccessfully challenged former governor Mike Castle in the Republican primary for Delaware's at-large seat in the United States House of Representatives in 1992,losing 54%-43%. She won the Republican nomination for governor in 1996 but lost the general election in a forty-point landslide to popular Democratic incumbent Governor Tom Carper. [5] She was the first woman nominated for governor by a major party in Delaware. She went on to lose her 1998 reelection campaign for state treasurer to Democratic challenger and telecommunications executive Jack Markell. [6]
After leaving office in 1999,she joined DuPont Direct Financial Holdings in 2001. [6] She served as president of the National Association of State Treasurers in 1988–89. [7]
Rzewnicki's husband,Victor,worked as a computer systems analyst for DuPont as of 1982. [8]
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