Gloria Burford Cabe (born September 15, 1941) was an American politician and political advisor. After serving a number of terms in the

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, she managed the successful 1990 gubernatorial campaign of

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and later served as his

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Early life

Cabe was born in

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to William Burford and Eva Elizabeth Owen and attended

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where she earned a BA in French in 1963. Her husband Robert Cabe, later a prominent attorney, also graduated from Hendrix.

Career

After working a few years as a teacher and librarian, in 1967 Cabe was named to the Arkansas Constitutional Revision Study Commission. She was a member of the Arkansas legislature from 1979-1980 and served a second term from 1983-1990. Cabe later served as Counselor to the Chairman of the United States Export-Import Bank under Bill Clinton and

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. She was also senior advisor to Secretary

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in the United States Department of State Global Partnership Initiative.

References

External links

Gloria Cabe
at the

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