Carol Swanson

Frozen Food heiress; grand daughter of the Swanson Foods founder Carl A Swanson; widow of former US Ambassdor to Great Britain

First of three known children in Omaha, Douglas county, Nebraska, to Florence Lorraine Swanson-Hamilton, ('nee Peterson) & Walter Clarke Swanson. Carol Ann Swanson, became known on both sides of the Atlantic for her decorating style and entertaining. Known for their lavish parties, she was asked to plan inaugural dinners for the Reagans Widowed in 2012 now making her home between, Los Angeles and Indian Wells, California. Carol's father and uncle Gilbert are credited for starting our country on frozen TV dinners, with their Swanson Food company first furnishing them in 1954. The company however, was started years earlier by their father, Carl Anton Swanson, a "Swede" who immigrated to Nebraska. Carol was a very popular girl, attended Brownell-Tablot school and graduated Stanford University. She was selected Queen of Omaha's prestigious 1958 Knights of AK-SAR-BEN Foundation celebration, two years later embarked upon her first marriage to Clark Schiller Rhoden, a son of president of the Fox Midwest Amusement Corporation, The marriage had its problems so she divorced him January 1968 keeping their two daughters by him with her, then a year later, January 1969 married her second husband spending forty-three+ years with him till his death, having one known son by him. Carol's selection of a second husband was Charles Harry Price, II, as stated Best Man at her first wedding, a Kansas City boy whose father started the Price Candy company,

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Donor	Common Recipients
Howard H Leach	David Perdue, John Boehner, David Timothy Dreier, John McCain, Kevin McCarthy, Arlen Specter, Rick Lazio, Republican National Committee, National Republican Senatorial Committee, National Republican Congressional Committee, California Republican Party/V8, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee, Nevada Republican State Central Committee, Jeb Bush, Mitt Romney, Scott P Brown, Tony Strickland, Marco Rubio, Reclaim America PAC, Tom Cotton, Dan Sullivan, Right to Rise USA, Romney Victory, Boehner for Speaker Cmte, Rubio Victory Cmte, McCarthy Victory Fund 2014
Duane R Roberts	David Perdue, Tommy Thompson, John Boehner, Mary Bono Mack, Elizabeth Dole, John McCain, Kevin McCarthy, Arlen Specter, Rick Lazio, Republican National Committee, National Republican Senatorial Committee, National Republican Congressional Committee, California Republican Party/V8, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee, Nevada Republican State Central Committee, Jeb Bush, Mitt Romney, Scott P Brown, Tony Strickland, Marco Rubio, Tom Cotton, Dan Sullivan, Romney Victory, Boehner for Speaker Cmte, McCarthy Victory Fund 2014
Marc I Stern	David Perdue, John Boehner, Mary Bono Mack, David Timothy Dreier, Dianne Feinstein, John McCain, Kevin McCarthy, Rick Lazio, Republican National Committee, National Republican Senatorial Committee, National Republican Congressional Committee, California Republican Party/V8, Jeb Bush, Mitt Romney, Scott P Brown, Tony Strickland, Marco Rubio, Reclaim America PAC, Tom Cotton, Dan Sullivan, Right to Rise USA, Romney Victory, Boehner for Speaker Cmte, McCarthy Victory Fund 2014
Stephen Schwarzman	David Perdue, Tommy Thompson, John Boehner, Elizabeth Dole, John McCain, Kevin McCarthy, Arlen Specter, Rick Lazio, Republican National Committee, National Republican Senatorial Committee, National Republican Congressional Committee, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee, Nevada Republican State Central Committee, Jeb Bush, Mitt Romney, Scott P Brown, Marco Rubio, Reclaim America PAC, Tom Cotton, Dan Sullivan, Right to Rise USA, Boehner for Speaker Cmte, Rubio Victory Cmte, McCarthy Victory Fund 2014
Charles R Schwab	David Perdue, Tommy Thompson, John Boehner, Elizabeth Dole, David Timothy Dreier, Dianne Feinstein, John McCain, Kevin McCarthy, Arlen Specter, Rick Lazio, Republican National Committee, National Republican Senatorial Committee, National Republican Congressional Committee, California Republican Party/V8, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee, Jeb Bush, Mitt Romney, Scott P Brown, Tony Strickland, Marco Rubio, Tom Cotton, Dan Sullivan, Boehner for Speaker Cmte, McCarthy Victory Fund 2014
Bradford M Freeman	David Perdue, Tommy Thompson, John Boehner, Mary Bono Mack, Elizabeth Dole, David Timothy Dreier, Dianne Feinstein, John McCain, Arlen Specter, Republican National Committee, National Republican Senatorial Committee, National Republican Congressional Committee, California Republican Party/V8, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee, Nevada Republican State Central Committee, Jeb Bush, Mitt Romney, Scott P Brown, Marco Rubio, Tom Cotton, Dan Sullivan, Right to Rise USA, Boehner for Speaker Cmte
John W Childs	David Perdue, John Boehner, Elizabeth Dole, John McCain, Kevin McCarthy, Arlen Specter, Rick Lazio, Republican National Committee, National Republican Senatorial Committee, National Republican Congressional Committee, California Republican Party/V8, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee, Nevada Republican State Central Committee, Jeb Bush, Mitt Romney, Scott P Brown, Marco Rubio, Tom Cotton, Dan Sullivan, Right to Rise USA, Boehner for Speaker Cmte, Rubio Victory Cmte, Freedom Partners Action Fund
Craig J Duchossois	David Perdue, John Boehner, Elizabeth Dole, John McCain, Kevin McCarthy, Arlen Specter, Rick Lazio, Republican National Committee, National Republican Senatorial Committee, National Republican Congressional Committee, California Republican Party/V8, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee, Nevada Republican State Central Committee, Jeb Bush, Mitt Romney, Scott P Brown, Marco Rubio, Reclaim America PAC, Tom Cotton, Dan Sullivan, Right to Rise USA, Rubio Victory Cmte, McCarthy Victory Fund 2014
Larry A Mizel	David Perdue, John Boehner, Elizabeth Dole, John McCain, Kevin McCarthy, Arlen Specter, Rick Lazio, Republican National Committee, National Republican Senatorial Committee, National Republican Congressional Committee, California Republican Party/V8, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee, Jeb Bush, Mitt Romney, Scott P Brown, Marco Rubio, Reclaim America PAC, Tom Cotton, Dan Sullivan, Romney Victory, Boehner for Speaker Cmte, Rubio Victory Cmte, McCarthy Victory Fund 2014
Helen Schwab	David Perdue, Elizabeth Dole, David Timothy Dreier, Dianne Feinstein, John McCain, Kevin McCarthy, Rick Lazio, Republican National Committee, National Republican Senatorial Committee, National Republican Congressional Committee, California Republican Party/V8, Nevada Republican State Central Committee, Jeb Bush, Mitt Romney, Scott P Brown, Tony Strickland, Marco Rubio, Tom Cotton, Dan Sullivan, Right to Rise USA, Romney Victory, McCarthy Victory Fund 2014
Miriam Adelson	David Perdue, John Boehner, Elizabeth Dole, John McCain, Kevin McCarthy, Arlen Specter, Rick Lazio, Republican National Committee, National Republican Senatorial Committee, National Republican Congressional Committee, California Republican Party/V8, Nevada Republican State Central Committee, Jeb Bush, Mitt Romney, Scott P Brown, Marco Rubio, Reclaim America PAC, Tom Cotton, Dan Sullivan, Romney Victory, Boehner for Speaker Cmte, Rubio Victory Cmte
Frank Baxter	David Perdue, John Boehner, Mary Bono Mack, David Timothy Dreier, John McCain, Kevin McCarthy, Republican National Committee, National Republican Senatorial Committee, National Republican Congressional Committee, California Republican Party/V8, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee, Jeb Bush, Mitt Romney, Tony Strickland, Marco Rubio, Tom Cotton, Dan Sullivan, Right to Rise USA, Boehner for Speaker Cmte, Rubio Victory Cmte, McCarthy Victory Fund 2014, Freedom Partners Action Fund
Martin D Gruss	John Boehner, Elizabeth Dole, John McCain, Arlen Specter, Rick Lazio, Republican National Committee, National Republican Senatorial Committee, National Republican Congressional Committee, California Republican Party/V8, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee, Nevada Republican State Central Committee, Jeb Bush, Mitt Romney, Scott P Brown, Marco Rubio, Reclaim America PAC, Tom Cotton, Dan Sullivan, Right to Rise USA, Romney Victory, Boehner for Speaker Cmte, Rubio Victory Cmte
John J Fisher	David Perdue, John Boehner, Elizabeth Dole, David Timothy Dreier, Dianne Feinstein, John McCain, Kevin McCarthy, Arlen Specter, Republican National Committee, National Republican Senatorial Committee, National Republican Congressional Committee, California Republican Party/V8, Jeb Bush, Mitt Romney, Scott P Brown, Tony Strickland, Marco Rubio, Tom Cotton, Dan Sullivan, Right to Rise USA, Boehner for Speaker Cmte, McCarthy Victory Fund 2014
C Boyden Gray	David Perdue, John Boehner, Elizabeth Dole, John McCain, Kevin McCarthy, Arlen Specter, Rick Lazio, Republican National Committee, National Republican Senatorial Committee, National Republican Congressional Committee, California Republican Party/V8, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee, Jeb Bush, Mitt Romney, Marco Rubio, Reclaim America PAC, Tom Cotton, Dan Sullivan, Right to Rise USA, Boehner for Speaker Cmte, Rubio Victory Cmte, McCarthy Victory Fund 2014
Manus Cooney	David Perdue, John Boehner, Mary Bono Mack, Elizabeth Dole, David Timothy Dreier, Dianne Feinstein, John McCain, Kevin McCarthy, Arlen Specter, Republican National Committee, National Republican Senatorial Committee, National Republican Congressional Committee, Mitt Romney, Scott P Brown, Marco Rubio, Reclaim America PAC, Tom Cotton, Dan Sullivan, Romney Victory, Boehner for Speaker Cmte, Rubio Victory Cmte, McCarthy Victory Fund 2014
Sheldon Adelson	David Perdue, John Boehner, John McCain, Kevin McCarthy, Arlen Specter, Rick Lazio, Republican National Committee, National Republican Senatorial Committee, National Republican Congressional Committee, California Republican Party/V8, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee, Nevada Republican State Central Committee, Jeb Bush, Mitt Romney, Scott P Brown, Marco Rubio, Reclaim America PAC, Tom Cotton, Dan Sullivan, Romney Victory, Boehner for Speaker Cmte, Rubio Victory Cmte
Kelly Roberts	David Perdue, Tommy Thompson, John Boehner, Mary Bono Mack, Elizabeth Dole, John McCain, Kevin McCarthy, Rick Lazio, Republican National Committee, National Republican Senatorial Committee, National Republican Congressional Committee, California Republican Party/V8, Nevada Republican State Central Committee, Jeb Bush, Mitt Romney, Scott P Brown, Marco Rubio, Tom Cotton, Dan Sullivan, Romney Victory, Boehner for Speaker Cmte, McCarthy Victory Fund 2014
Albert Galatyn Hill Jr	John Boehner, Mary Bono Mack, Elizabeth Dole, David Timothy Dreier, John McCain, Kevin McCarthy, Arlen Specter, Rick Lazio, Republican National Committee, National Republican Senatorial Committee, National Republican Congressional Committee, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee, Jeb Bush, Mitt Romney, Scott P Brown, Marco Rubio, Reclaim America PAC, Romney Victory, Boehner for Speaker Cmte, Rubio Victory Cmte, McCarthy Victory Fund 2014
Bernie Marcus	David Perdue, Tommy Thompson, John Boehner, Elizabeth Dole, John McCain, Arlen Specter, Rick Lazio, Republican National Committee, National Republican Senatorial Committee, National Republican Congressional Committee, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee, Nevada Republican State Central Committee, Jeb Bush, Mitt Romney, Scott P Brown, Marco Rubio, Reclaim America PAC, Tom Cotton, Dan Sullivan, Right to Rise USA, Rubio Victory Cmte

Updated about 5 years ago

Types	Person
Gender	Female
Birthday	Apr 23 '37
Aliases	Carol Swanson Price, Carol Swanson Rhoden

Carol Swanson

Frozen Food heiress; grand daughter of the Swanson Foods founder Carl A Swanson; widow of former US Ambassdor to Great Britain

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