Angela "Bay" Buchanan began her political career as the national
Treasurer of Ronald Reagan's presidential campaigns in 1980 and
1984. This position catapulted her into a distinguished career
beginning in 1981 when President Reagan appointed her to be
Treasurer of the United States. At the age of 32, she was the
youngest person to hold that position since it was established in
1775.
In 2012 Buchanan served as Senior Adviser to the Mitt Romney
presidential campaign. In this role Bay emerged as a top surrogate
for the candidate on both national television and radio.
In the spring of that same year her second book, "Bay and Her
Boys, the Unexpected Lessons I Learned as a Single Mom." was
published. This personal account of her experience raising her
three boys alone received high acclaim from a wide audience. Her
first book, "The Extreme Makeover of Hillary (Rodham) Clinton", was
released in 2008.
Presently she is the president of The American Cause, an
educational foundation dedicated to advancing traditional
conservative issues. In addition she regularly speaks on college
campuses and at student conventions about leadership and
conservative principles, and can often be seen on television doing
the same.
Buchanan served as the campaign chairman for all three of her
brother Pat Buchanan's presidential campaigns. From September of
1996 through August of 1999, she co-anchored Equal Time, a
political talk show initially on CNBC, then MSNBC. In addition, she
worked as a political analyst for Good Morning America throughout
the general election in 1992. From 1996 to 1997 Buchanan hosted a
two-hour radio talk show program covering current events.
In the summer of 1996, George magazine recognized her as one of
the top 20 political women in the nation. The Clare Boothe Luce
Policy Institute named Bay Buchanan the 2007 Woman of the Year, and
again in 2011 she was named by the Institute as one
of the 10 most influential conservative women in
America.
A native of Washington, DC, Buchanan has a Masters degree in
mathematics from McGill University in Montreal, Canada, and has
further studies at several universities, including the University
of New South Wales in Australia. In 1981, she received an Honorary
Doctor of Law Degree from Samford University. She lives in Virginia
with her husband.
