Cermak, Albina Rose

Albina Rose Cermak (1904-1978) was a leader in Cleveland Republican Party activities and civic affairs. Born in Cleveland, she was the daughter of Frank J. and Rose Cermak, a Republican precinct committeeman and a suffragette, respectively.

Albina Cermak was educated at St. Agnes School, Clark School, Lincold High School, and was for a brief time enrolled as a nurse trainee at Mt. Sinai Hospital, until her mother's ill health forced her to quit that course of study to become a bookkeeper, secretary and buyer for the family dry goods store. In 1927 the family store was sold and she became a clerk typist for Waible Hardware and Sheet Metal Co. In 1933 she left that job to become a bookkeeper for the Cleveland Publuc Utilities Department, rising to the position of supervisor of the Addressograph department to become vice chairman and secretary of the Cuyahoga County Republican Central and Executive committees and chairman of the Republican Women's Organization of Cuyahoga County. In 1946 she also became a board member of the Cuyahoga of County Board of Elections. She held these three jobs until 1953. Concurrently she held offices as precinct committeewoman, 1925-1953; board president and secretary of the Ohio Association of Elected Officials, 1948-1953; and, from 1951-1953, board member of the National Federation of Republican Women's Clubs. In 1940, 1944 and 1952 she was a delegate to the Republican National Convention.

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