1. Barbara Elizabeth Cornelius Price was born on October 21,1949 and is an American businesswoman and politician who served as mayor of Fort Worth, Texas through 2021.
15 Facts About Betsy Price
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Betsy Price was first elected to the nonpartisan office on June 18,2011.
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Betsy Price is a Republican who describes herself as fiscally conservative, deplores polarization and extremist tendencies in both major parties, and professed a commitment to work for the entire community as an elected local official.
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Betsy Price lost to Tim O'Hare, the former Tarrant County Republican chairman, who had the support of Allen West, the recently departed chair of the Texas GOP.
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Betsy Price was born Barbara Elizabeth Cornelius in Tarrant, Texas to parents Wayne Clarence Cornelius and Elizabeth Mary Dalton.
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Betsy Price graduated from Arlington Heights High School in 1968, where she had been President of her homeroom, as well as President of the Future Homemakers of America.
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Betsy Price was a member of the Allied Youth and Young Citizen's Forum and spent time working as a nurse's assistant.
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Betsy Price had been the Vice President of the Red Cross.
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Active in the Republican Party, Betsy Price began her first bid for public office and ran for office in 2000 for the position of Tarrant County's Tax Assessor.
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Betsy Price has stated she never thought about running for mayor, but began contemplating the position after being approached by several politicos, including Congresswoman Kay Granger, who was the first female mayor of Fort Worth in the early 1990s.
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In 2011, Betsy Price decided to run for mayor of Fort Worth, Texas, winning a run-off election against Jim Lane in the non-partisan contest.
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Betsy Price was elected to a third consecutive term in 2015, running unopposed.
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In 2020, Betsy Price contracted Covid-19, but recovered, after several scares with the virus throughout the pandemic.
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On January 6,2021, Betsy Price announced that she would not seek a sixth term.
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Betsy Price has been married to Tom Price, an insurance executive, for more than 40 years.