Susan Bowers Vergeront is a former member of the

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Biography

Vergeront was born Susan Bowers on November 30, 1945, in

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, the daughter of Mary Oberly Bowers and A. William Bowers. She graduated from Lincoln High School in

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and the

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. Vergeront was married to David John Vergeront and she has three grown children and 6 grandchildren.

Career

Vergeront was a member of the Grafton, Wisconsin Board of Education from 1981 to 1987. She was first elected to the Assembly in 1984. She is a Republican. In June 2020, Susan Vergeront endorsed Joe Biden, a Democrat, for president. According to Vergeront, "Since I left the legislature in 1994, the Republican party has become more greedy and more vicious and ruthless than I ever imagined it could be. I still call myself a Republican because I believe in the Republican ideals of limited government, freedom of the individual, seeking public good...I call myself a Republican in the traditional sense of the Grand Old Party. I'm so disappointed, sometimes to tears, at where our country has come"Archived a
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