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Susan Bowers Vergeront is a former member of the Wisconsin State Assembly.

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Biography

Vergeront was born Susan Bowers on November 30, 1945, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the daughter of Mary Oberly Bowers and A. William Bowers. [1] [2] She graduated from Lincoln High School in Manitowoc, Wisconsin and the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Vergeront was married to David John Vergeront and she has three grown children and 6 grandchildren. [3]

Career

Vergeront was a member of the Grafton, Wisconsin Board of Education from 1981 to 1987. She was first elected to the Assembly in 1984. She is a Republican.

In June 2020, Susan Vergeront endorsed Joe Biden, a Democrat, for president. According to Vergeront, "Since I left the legislature in 1994, the Republican party has become more greedy and more vicious and ruthless than I ever imagined it could be. I still call myself a Republican because I believe in the Republican ideals of limited government, freedom of the individual, seeking public good...I call myself a Republican in the traditional sense of the Grand Old Party. I'm so disappointed, sometimes to tears, at where our country has come" [4]

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References

  1. "Members of State Legislature". Wisconsin Blue Book. Retrieved 2013-06-29.[ dead link ]
  2. "Assembly Journal". Wisconsin State Assembly. March 10, 1992. Retrieved November 26, 2016.
  3. "Vergeront, Susan B. 1945". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2013-06-29.[ dead link ]
  4. Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine : Susan is a former GOP State Legislator from Wisconsin who is voting Joe. YouTube .