1. Virginia Harrington Knauer was an American Republican politician.
13 Facts About Virginia Knauer
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Virginia Knauer served as the Special Assistant to the President for Consumer Affairs and Director of the US Office of Consumer Affairs.
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Virginia Knauer was appointed to the newly created post of chief consumer advisor to Pennsylvania Governor Ray Shafer.
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Virginia Knauer was the mentor and good friend of former North Carolina Senator Elizabeth Dole.
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Virginia Knauer grew up in Philadelphia, where her father was a professor of accounting at Temple University.
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Virginia Knauer was educated at the Philadelphia High School for Girls, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the University of Pennsylvania ; she attended the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, Italy.
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Virginia Knauer served as president of the Doberman Pinscher Club of America.
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Virginia Knauer became Richard Nixon's special assistant for consumer affairs in 1969.
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Virginia Knauer became the director of the US Office of Consumer Affairs, where she became an energetic supporter of consumers' rights.
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In office, Virginia Knauer promoted recycling and nutritional labeling, unit pricing of groceries, and other consumer-friendly features.
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Virginia Knauer predicted that, because of domestic automakers' reluctance to install safety and environmental improvements, among other advances, foreign manufacturers would increase their share of the US auto market.
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Virginia Knauer headed the Office of Consumer Affairs during the Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan administrations.
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Virginia Knauer died October 16,2011, of congestive heart failure, in Washington, DC.