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Frances Clotfelter Rusk

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(1875–1959)

BIRTH

1875

PLACE

Georgia

NAME

Elizabeth Frances Clotfelter

DEATH

1959

PLACE

Unknown

FAMILY

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HUSBAND

Robert Hugh Rusk

(1868–1944)

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Elizabeth Frances Clotfelter Rusk, called Fanny, was mother of U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk. She had trained as a teacher. In his oral history, Dean recalled her family and life on the family farm in Georgia; sources vary the order of her given names.

EARLY LIFE

Frances Clotfelter Rusk had taught school before her marriage. On the family's Cherokee County farm, she tended the vegetable garden and helped educate her children at home. Her son Dean Rusk recalled that both parents emphasized reading and study.

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