Louise Wensel
Louise Wensel | |
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| Born | Mary Louise Oftedal December 24, 1918 Independent |
| Spouse | Alfred Fernbach |
Louise Wensel (December 24, 1918 – February 13, 2005), was a Doctor of Medicine and political candidate and activist.
Wensel ran as an independent
Despite her loss, Wensel's campaign energized Virginia moderates who continued working on the still-unresolved public school crisis. Fifteen "open-schools" committees joined together in the winter of 1958, with backing from the state teachers' association and the PTA to form the statewide Virginia Committee for Public Schools, which ultimately attracted 25,000 residents to its membership. In January 1959, the courts finally put an end to the assault of the
After the 1958 elections, Wensel continued as a practicing physician until a few years prior to her death in
Sources
- George Lewis, "'Any Old Joe Named Zilch?': The Senatorial Campaign of Dr. Louise Oftedal Wensel," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 107, no.3 (Summer 1999): 287–316.
- The papers of Dr. Wensel and some notes on their content[1] are accessible through the University of Virginia Special Collections
- Nancy MacLean, Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America, Viking, 2017, p. 65.
References
External links
- Guide to Louise Wensel Papers at the University of Virginia
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