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Article: Thirty-four years at the Governor's Mansion. (Arkansas; food production manager Eliza Jane Ashley)
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- Ebony
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- July 1, 1989
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Thirty-Four Years At The Governor's Mansion
THERE is only one person who can give an insider's account of events in the Arkansas Governor's Mansion for the past 34 years, and that lady can be found in the kitchen. Eliza Jane Ashley, food production manager, has written a book, Thirty Years at the Mansion, which details her memories there.
Needless to say, Mrs. Ashley didn't come to the Little Rock mansion as manager of food production. She started as a maid in 1954 under Gov. Francis Cherry. When highly controversial Gov. Orval E. Faubus was elected to office in 1955, Mrs. Faubus wanted to replace the male cook with a woman. "I hated to take the job ...