- Geraldine Anne Ferraro was an American attorney, a Democratic Party politician, and a member of the United States House of Representatives
Born: | 26 August 1935 Comment | When did Geraldine Ferraro die? / Died | 26 March 2011 | How many years did Geraldine Ferraro live? / Lived | 75 years | Zodiac sign: | Virgo |
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Geraldine Ferraro facts
- In 1984, she was the first female vice presidential candidate representing a major American political party
- Ferraro grew up in New York City and worked as a public school teacher before training as a lawyer
- She joined the Queens County District Attorney's Office in 1974, heading the new Special Victims Bureau that dealt with sex crimes, child abuse, and domestic violence
- In 1978 she was elected to the U
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- House of Representatives, where she rose rapidly in the party hierarchy while focusing on legislation to bring equity for women in the areas of wages, pensions, and retirement plans
- In 1984, former vice president and presidential candidate Walter Mondale, seen as an underdog, selected Ferraro to be his running mate in the upcoming election
- Ferraro became the only Italian American to be a major-party national nominee in addition to being the first woman
- The positive polling the Mondale-Ferraro ticket received when she joined soon faded, as damaging questions arose about her and her businessman husband's finances and wealth and her Congressional disclosure statements
- In the general election, Mondale and Ferraro were defeated in a landslide by incumbent President Ronald Reagan and Vice President George H
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