Early Life
Nancy Hanks was born in Miami Beach, Florida on December 31, 1927. She was a distant cousin of Nancy (Hanks) Lincoln, the mother of President Abraham Lincoln. She moved to Montclair, New Jersey, while she was in high school.
Hanks attended Duke University where she majored in political science and was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority.
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