Barbara Tuttle Snelling (née Weil; March 22, 1928November 2, 2015) served as the 78th

lieutenant governor of Vermont The lieutenant governor of Vermont is elected for a two-year term and chosen separately from the governor. The Vermont Lieutenant Governor's main responsibilities include acting as governor when the governor is out of state or incapacitated, presi ...

from 1993 to 1997. She suffered a cerebral hemorrhage in 1996 while campaigning for governor. She was elected to the

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in 1998, where she served until she suffered a second stroke; she resigned in 2002.

Life and career

Snelling was born Barbara Tuttle Weil in 1928 in

Fall River, Massachusetts Fall River is a city in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States. The City of Fall River's population was 94,000 at the 2020 United States Census, making it the tenth-largest city in the state. Located along the eastern shore of Mount H ...

, the daughter of Hazel (née Russell) and The Reverend F. Taylor Weil. She attended

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for two years before transferring to

Radcliffe College Radcliffe College was a women's liberal arts college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and functioned as the female coordinate institution for the all-male Harvard College. Considered founded in 1879, it was one of the Seven Sisters colleges and he ...

, from which she received her

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degree ''

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'' in 1950. She served as chair of the Shelburne School Board; as Founding Chair of Champlain Valley Union High School Board. She was member of the State Board of Education; President of the Vermont State School Boards Association; Vermont Commission on Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation; Chair of the Chittenden County United Way. She was a founding trustee of the Vermont Community Foundation; a trustee of

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and

. She was a trustee of the

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. She was Vice President of the

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and later was President of Snelling and Kolb, a national fundraising consulting firm focused of development work for educational institutions. She was married to

Richard Snelling Richard Arkwright Snelling (February 18, 1927August 13, 1991) was an American businessman and politician. He was most notable for his service as the 76th and 78th governor of Vermont from 1977 to 1985 and from January 10, 1991, until his death ...

, a long-serving governor of Vermont. Their children included Jacqueline, Mark, Andrew, and Diane, who was appointed to Snelling's seat in the State Senate. Snelling died at her home in

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on November 2, 2015.

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Lieutenant Governors of Vermont Republican Party Vermont state senators First Ladies and Gentlemen of Vermont Radcliffe College alumni School board members in Vermont Women state legislators in Vermont People from Fall River, Massachusetts People from Shelburne, Vermont 1928 births 2015 deaths Snelling family {{Vermont-politician-stub

Life and career

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