Eleanor McGovern
Eleanor McGovern was born in South Dakota on November 25th, 1921 and is the Family Member. At the age of 85, Eleanor McGovern biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Financial difficulties forced her to withdraw from college, but she soon found work as a legal secretary. Eleanor followed George to a number of training stops, before he was sent into combat overseas as a B-24 bomber pilot stationed in Italy and making runs over Nazi Germany. McGovern's flight crew recommended naming their plane the Dakota Queen after Eleanor.
McGovern was an active political wife; she campaigned for her ailing husband in his 1962 United States Senate race. During the 1972 presidential election, when her husband won the Democratic nomination, she was featured on the cover of Time magazine along with First Lady Pat Nixon. During the campaign, The Eleanor McGovern Cookbook: a Collection of South Dakota Family Favorites was published.
After her husband's resounding loss in the 1972 United States presidential election, and subsequent defeat for a fourth Senate term in 1980, she remained active, particularly in combating world hunger. She was also greatly concerned with issues related to child development, and with the fight against alcoholism, which was a contributing factor in the death of her daughter Teresa in 1994.