Barbara Ruth Staff (August 26, 1924 – July 29, 2019) was an American political activist for the Republican Party who was one of three co-chairs of the 1976 presidential primary campaign for

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in Texas, along with Ernest Angelo Jr., former mayor of Midland, and

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, a former state legislator and a Republican chairman. Staff died in July 2019 in Plano, Texas at the age of 94.

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