Buchanan MaryEstill

American politician, Secretary of the State of Colorado from 1974-1983. She was a widow at age 22, gave birth to her second child and graduated from Wellesley College in the same 12-month period. With an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1962, shee became a labor-management consultant. She remarried, had four more children and divorced in 1976. Two years prior to her divorce she was elected Colorados secretary of state. Four years later she was re-elected to a second term. In 1980 the Republican ran against Colorado Senator Gary Hart, a Democrat, for his Senate seat. She lost by a narrow margin. Read less