Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky
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| In office 1993–1995 |
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| Preceded by | R. Lawrence Coughlin |
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| Succeeded by | Jon D. Fox |
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| Born | June 21 1942 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse | Edward Mezvinsky |
Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky (Born June 21, 1942) was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Marjorie Margolies was born in Philadelphia. She graduated from the
University of Pennsylvania in 1963. She is the
wife of Edward Mezvinsky, former representative from Iowa. Their son, Marc Mezvinsky is currently dating Chelsea Clinton, the
daughter of former President Bill Clinton and Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton. She is a five-time Emmy Award winner and CBS News Foundation Fellow,
Columbia University, and worked as a television journalist at
She was elected in 1992 as a Democrat to the 103rd Congress. She was one of 34 Democratic incumbents who were defeated in the Republican Revolution of 1994. Her defeat was blamed on her vote for President Clinton' controversial 1993 budget, for which she was the deciding vote. That same year, she completed her autobiography, A Woman's Place. After her term in Congress, she was the Chair of the National Women’s Business Council, and the Director and Deputy Chair of the United States delegation to the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in 1995.
She currently serves as the founder and chair of Women’s Campaign International (WCI), a group that provides advocacy training for women throughout the world. She is also a professor at the Fels Institute of Government at the University of Pennsylvania.
Trivia
- She is known to citizens in her home state of Pennsylvania as MMM or Triple M.
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| Preceded by R. Lawrence Coughlin |
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 13th congressional district 1993–1995 |
Succeeded by Jon D. Fox |
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