Who WE ARE
With over 1000 members across our 28 chapters, the Alabama Federation of Republican Women is the leading auxiliary group in Alabama Reublican Party. As we continue to grow, we have stayed true to our one true mission: to promote conservative values and elect qualified Republican candidates.
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Family values, individual initiative, limited government, low taxes, free enterprise, fiscal responsibility, honest and accountable governmentare not only values that our members believe in , but values that every patriotic American has. Ourgoal is to foster the principlesof America's founding fathers and to elect Republicans that share our values and goals.
About
AFRW
HISTORY OF AFRW
The Alabama Federation of Republican Women was incubated in the mind of Mary Ellen Miller. Mary Ellen Miller moved from Oklahoma to Mobile Alabama in 1955. She had been a member of the Young Republicans in OK. When she asked about republican organizations in Mobile she was told there was only a Republican Executive Committee whose sole purpose was to recommend Republicans for federal office. Mary Ellen then set about establishing the Mobile Republican Women’s Club, along with the women volunteers in the 1956 Eisenhower campaign headquarters.
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Mary Ellen and Miss Olive Spann traveled the state speaking to any woman’s group interested in politics. The Mobile Republican Women’s group began to prosper and helped start other Republican clubs in Mobile. She was also invited to join the Mobile County Executive Committee. This committee had full control over delegates selected to attend the National Convention. Mary Ellen was urged to become a delegate to the Republican National Convention. Her attendance at this convention was to become important to the founding of the Alabama Federation of Republican Women.
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At the convention, Mary Ellen met Ruth Parks, President of the National Federation of Republican Women. Ruth Parks suggested she attend the 1961 Women’s Republican National Conference. Mary Ellen and three other women drove to Washington, D.C. to attend. At that time only Alaska and Alabama did not have a women’s federated organization. Mary Ellen made a handshake agreement with NFRW. She would work to establish a Republican Women’s Club in each of the Alabama Congressional Districts (a requirement to join NFRW) if NFRW would hold their next conference in Mobile.
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Mary Ellen succeeded and they were chartered in 1962 as the Alabama Federation of Republican Women. The Alabama Federation of Republican Women attended the 12th Biennial Convention of the National Federation of Republican Women in Phoenix, Arizona on September 27, 1962. AFRW was over 1000 members strong and received two awards.
OUR SEAL
American Eagle
Adopted from the Great Seal of the United States
Quill Pen
Symbolic of the power of words, Especially as contained in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States
Ballot Box
Represents the Federation's interest in the protection and integrity of our electoral process.
Red Alabama
represents our activism in promoting the principles, objectives and policies of the Republican Party in order to make and keep Alabama red.
AFRW PRESIDENTS
1962 Mary Ellen Miller
1964 Virginia Garrett
1966 Vera Younger
1968 Bobbie Ames
1970 Anna Graham
1972 Olive Spain
1976 O’Reba Weeks
1980 Joan Keet
1984 Wren McKenny
1986 Martha Foy
1992 Deanna Cox
1994 Lionel Gustafson
1996 Joyce West
2000 Sallie Bryant
2002 Rhonda Rutledge
2006 Virginia Howard
2008 Bobbie Lou Leigh
2010 Elois Zeanah
2014 Frances Taylor
2018 Vicki Bailey
2020 Britney Garner
2024 Tiffany Noel