Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky
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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, PA. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1963. She is the wife of Edward Mezvinsky, representative from Iowa. She is a CBS News Foundation Fellow, Columbia University, and worked as a television journalist at WCAU-TV from 1967 to 1971, and then with NBC from 1971 to 1991.
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. 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.
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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 |
