Sue Wagner
| Sue Wagner | |
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| 30th Lieutenant Governor of Nevada | |
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In office January 7, 1991 – January 2, 1995 |
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| Governor | Bob Miller |
| Preceded by | Bob Miller |
| Succeeded by | Lonnie Hammargren |
| Member of the Gaming Commission of Nevada | |
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In office 1997–2009 |
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| Nominated by | Bob Miller |
| Member of the Nevada Senate | |
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In office 1981–1989 |
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| Member of the Nevada Assembly | |
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In office 1975–1980 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
Sue Ellen Pooler January 6, 1940 Portland, Maine |
| Political party | formerly Republican, currently non-partisan |
| Residence | Reno, Nevada |
Sue Ellen Wagner (née Pooler; January 6, 1940) is an American politician. She was the 30th Lieutenant Governor of the U.S. State of Nevada, serving from 1991 to 1995, the first woman to be elected to the position. A moderate who was liberal on social issues, she was a member of the Republican Party until her exit in January 2014 due to the party's shift towards the Tea Party movement.
Wagner was born Sue Ellen Pooler in Portland, Maine. Her father was active in the Maine Republican Party until the family moved to Tucson, Arizona in 1950, where she grew up. She graduated with a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Arizona in 1962 and with a master's degree in history from Northwestern University in 1963.
She served as Assistant dean of women at Ohio State University from 1963 to 1964, when she married Peter B. Wagner and moved back to Arizona, where she worked as a reporter for the Tucson Daily Citizen from 1964 to 1965. She then worked at Catalina High School, teaching government and history from 1965 to 1969 when she, her husband and their two children, Kirk and Kristina, moved to Reno, Nevada.
Her husband, an atmospheric physicist, worked as a scientist and associate research professor for the Desert Research Institute and she became involved in local politics, working on Pat Hardy Lewis' successful campaign for Reno City Council. She chaired Reno's Blue Ribbon Task Force on Housing and served on the Mayor's Citizen Advisory Board from 1973 to 1974.
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