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Linda Welch Chapin, a Florida politician, was the first chairman[citation needed] of the Orange County Commission and an unsuccessful candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives.The former Linda Welch received her early education at the Old Greenwich School in Greenwich, Connecticut and eventually studied political science and journalism at Michigan State University.Linda met her future husband Bruce E. Chapin at Walt Disney's "It's a Small World" attraction at the 1964 World's Fair in New York City. They moved to Orlando, Florida, where she joined (and eventually became president of) both the local chapters of the League of Women Voters and the Junior League. Then, when their children were old enough to attend school, she took a job at a downtown bank, a position that expanded her contacts amongst the city's power brokers.