1. Barbara Lynn Cubin is an American politician who was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives, Wyoming's sole member of that body.
25 Facts About Barbara Cubin
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Barbara Cubin was the first woman elected to Congress from Wyoming.
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Barbara Cubin grew up in Casper, Wyoming, and graduated from high school there.
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Barbara Cubin received a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry from Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska.
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Barbara Cubin later worked for the state Labor Department and Ironworkers' Union to train minorities and Vietnam War veterans to become iron workers.
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In 1974, Barbara Cubin joined the Wyoming Machinery Company as a chemist, and in 1975, began managing the office of her husband, Fritz Barbara Cubin, a physician.
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Fritz Barbara Cubin, who was a doctor, died in 2010 after a decade of serious health problems.
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In past elections, Barbara Cubin fended off attacks on missed floor votes, which she attributed to her husband's severe health problems.
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Barbara Cubin began her political career in November 1986, when she was elected to the Wyoming House of Representatives from Natrona County, Wyoming.
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In November 1992, Barbara Cubin was elected to the Wyoming Senate, representing part of Casper, Wyoming.
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Barbara Cubin served there for two years before being elected to the US House.
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In November 1994, Barbara Cubin ran for Wyoming's US House seat, to succeed Republican Craig Thomas, who was running for the United States Senate.
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Barbara Cubin defeated eight other Republicans in the primary, then won the general election against Bob Schuster, a wealthy Jackson attorney and then-partner of prominent trial attorney Gerry Spence.
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Barbara Cubin became the first woman to win an election for federal office in the state of Wyoming.
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In 2006, Barbara Cubin won her seat again, but barely, registering 48 percent of the vote to her Democratic opponent Gary Trauner's 48 percent.
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An opponent of abortion in any form, Barbara Cubin consistently voted for restrictions on abortion and against funding of family planning groups that provide abortion services, counseling or advocacy.
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In 2006, Barbara Cubin was listed as cosponsoring legislation that would sell off some federal land to help pay for Hurricane Katrina and other disaster relief.
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Barbara Cubin maintains she never signed on to the legislation, saying there must have been a clerical error.
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Barbara Cubin cofounded the Congressional Mining Caucus and introduced legislation to allow mining companies operating on federal lands to pay taxes in minerals rather than dollars.
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In November 1997, Barbara Cubin was one of eighteen House Republicans to co-sponsor a resolution by Bob Barr that sought to launch an impeachment inquiry against President Clinton.
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On October 8,1998, Barbara Cubin voted in favor of legislation that was passed to open an impeachment inquiry.
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On December 19,1998, Barbara Cubin voted in favor of all four proposed articles of impeachment against Clinton.
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Barbara Cubin said that she did not mean to offend her "neighbors" on the Democratic side, and maintained that her comment was within House rules.
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On October 22,2006, after a televised debate with Democratic candidate Gary Trauner and Libertarian candidate Thomas Rankin, Barbara Cubin approached Rankin, who has multiple sclerosis and is a wheelchair user.
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Barbara Cubin announced in 2008 that she would not be a candidate for re-election that year.