Her daughter, Anne Cori, said Mrs. Schlafly had been ill with cancer for some time. Phyllis Schlafly talks with Missouri delegate Juanita Crosby at the 1992 Republican National Convention in Houston. Mrs. Schlafly was the subject of two biographies, Carol Felsenthal’s “The Sweetheart of the Silent Majority” (1981) and Donald Critchlow’s “Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism” (2006). Mrs. Schlafly also rose in the ranks of the National Federation of Republican Women, becoming first vice president. In 1993, after 44 years of marriage, her husband died, and Mrs. Schlafly moved back to St. Louis from their longtime home in Alton.

Source: Washington Post September 06, 2016 00:00 UTC