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	Geraldine Ferraro - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Geraldine Anne Ferraro (born August 26, 1935) is a politician from New York, serving in the United States House of Representatives and receiving the nomination of the Democratic Party to run for Vice President of the United States.
		Ferraro was elected to the House of Representatives from New York's Ninth Congressional District in Queens in 1978 and served three two-year terms, compiling a generally liberal voting record on social and economic issues.
		Although Ferraro was the first woman to be on a major-party ticket for one of the nation's two highest offices, she was not the first woman to receive an electoral vote.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Geraldine_Ferraro (571 words)

	MSN Encarta - Multimedia - Geraldine Anne Ferraro
		Geraldine Ferraro was chosen by U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Walter F. Mondale in 1984 as his vice-presidential running mate, which made her the first female vice-presidential nominee of a major U.S. party.
		Vice President of the United States; Ferraro, Geraldine Anne
		Ferraro, a New York lawyer, was serving as a three-term congresswoman from Queens.
	encarta.msn.com /media_461515566_761569872_-1_1/Geraldine_Anne_Ferraro.html (77 words)

	Ferraro, Geraldine Anne - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Ferraro, Geraldine Anne
		Ferraro, a lawyer, was elected to Congress in 1981 and was selected in 1984 by Walter Mondale to be the USA's first female vice-presidential candidate from one of the major parties.
		Ferraro testified about the disease at a Senate hearing on 21 June, to appeal for more federal funding for myeloma research.
		The Democrats were defeated by the incumbent president Reagan, and Ferraro, damaged by investigations of her husband's business affairs, retired temporarily from politics.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Ferraro,%20Geraldine%20Anne (212 words)

	Ferraro, Geraldine Anne
		Born on August 26, 1935, in Newburgh, New York, Geraldine Ferraro was the daughter of Italian immigrants.
		In 1974 Ferraro accepted a position as an assistant district attorney in the Investigations Bureau in Queens; in 1975 she transferred to the Special Victims Bureau, which she helped to create to handle cases of domestic violence and rape.
		In 1980 Ferraro was elected secretary of the Democratic caucus, and she took a seat in the House Steering and Policy Committee.
	search.eb.com /women/articles/Ferraro_Geraldine_Anne.html (212 words)

	MSN Encarta - Geraldine Ferraro
		Geraldine Ferraro (1935- ) American politician, born on August 26, 1935, in Newburgh, New York.
		Reelected in 1980 and 1982 by ever-increasing margins, Ferraro quickly gained influence within the Democratic party, and she won wide public attention in 1984 as head of the party's platform committee.
		In November the Democratic slate was defeated, and Ferraro returned to private life.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761569872/Geraldine_Ferraro.html (228 words)

	Debating Our Destiny: Geraldine Ferraro
		GERALDINE FERRARO: I think if Reagan had done as poorly as he'd done in the second debate as he did in the first, if he had not been as rehearsed as he was… Fritz Mondale would have been President of the United States.
		GERALDINE FERRARO: I think Dukakis's response on, "If your wife were raped would you support…", I think it cemented the view of the people on the type of person Dukakis was.
		GERALDINE FERRARO: We had prepared, my staff had prepared for me a whole dossier on virtually -- on George Bush on his votes on his records, what he had done over the past number of years in public service.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/debatingourdestiny/interviews/ferraro.html (2869 words)

	Ferraro, Geraldine Ferraro
		In this memoir, Geraldine A. Ferraro reflects on her experience as the first and only woman nominated by a major party to run on the presidential ticket.
		Ferraro brings to life the dynamics of the women in Congress and how the different life experiences that they bring to the table affect the policy making process.
		Ferraro's run for vice-president was an important moment in American history.
	nupress.northwestern.edu /title.cfm?ISBN=0-8101-2211-1 (180 words)

	Geraldine Ferraro Has Cancer - CBS News
		(AP) Former U.S. Rep. Geraldine Ferraro, the Democratic Party nominee for vice president in 1984, is battling blood cancer.
		Ferraro was picked to run as Walter Mondale's vice presidential candidate in 1984 — the first woman to run as a major party candidate for national office — and ran unsuccessfully in 1992 and 1998 for the Democratic nomination for a U.S. Senate seat from New York.
		Ferraro said she and her husband, John Zaccaro, are moving from their Queens home to an apartment in Manhattan at the end of the year.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2001/06/19/politics/main297295.shtml (490 words)

	44. Geraldine Ferraro
		Ferraro promised full income and tax disclosures, but later had to inform the press that her husband refused to comply, leaving the impression that he had something to hide.
		Ferraro's selection engendered a lot of excitement in the media and among the party faithful.
		When all was said and done, the general consensus was that Ferraro did not have a significant positive impact on the campaign -- or a negative one, for that matter.
	eightiesclub.tripod.com /id330.htm (1755 words)

	Centre College Debate 2000 -- Geraldine Ferraro
		Geraldine Ferraro won the three-way Democratic primary with 53 percent of the vote and went on to beat Republican Alfred A. DelliBovi in the general election.
		Geraldine Anne Ferraro was born in 1935 in Newburgh, N.Y. She was the only daughter of Dominick Ferraro, an Italian immigrant who owned a restaurant and a small convenience store, and his wife Antonetta.
		Geraldine Ferraro worked hard and managed to make her way through high school, college, graduate school, and law school.
	www.buzzwordinc.com /vp/veep5.htm (806 words)

	Centre College Debate 2000 -- Geraldine Ferraro
		Geraldine Anne Ferraro was born in 1935 in Newburgh, N.Y. She was the only daughter of Dominick Ferraro, an Italian immigrant who owned a restaurant and a small convenience store, and his wife Antonetta.
		Geraldine Ferraro won the three-way Democratic primary with 53 percent of the vote and went on to beat Republican Alfred A. DelliBovi in the general election.
		Geraldine Ferraro worked hard and managed to make her way through high school, college, graduate school, and law school.
	www.buzzwordinc.com /vp/veep5.htm (806 words)

	Welcome to The American Presidency
		Ferraro, Geraldine A. Geraldine Anne Ferraro was the first woman to be nominated by a major political party for vice president of the United States.
		In 1974 Ferraro was appointed an assistant district attorney in Queens, a borough of New York City.
		Although Ferraro's skills and dynamic personality made her an asset to the ticket, the Democrats were unable to defeat the popular Republican incumbent president, Ronald Reagan.
	ap.grolier.com /article?assetid=a2010080-h&templatename=/article/article.html (806 words)

	Daily Celebrations ~ Geraldine Ferraro, Stop and Take Notice ~ August 26 ~ Ideas to motivate, educate, and inspire
		Geraldine Anne Ferraro (1935-) was born on this day in New York City, the child of Italian immigrants.
		When Geraldine Ferraro was diagnosed with a rare, bone-destroying blood cancer called multiple myeloma in December 1998, she reacted with upbeat optimism : "This is a race I may not win, but I've lost other races before, so it's not the end of the world."
		Ferraro made history in 1984 as Walter Mondale's running mate, becoming the first woman nominated as vice-president by a major party.
	www.dailycelebrations.com /082602.htm (806 words)

	Search Results for "Geraldine"
		110Democratic nominee Walter F. Mondale chose U.S. Representative Geraldine Ferraro as his running mate; she was the first woman to gain a...
		In addition, she was an outstanding interpreter of lieder and a great teacher, Geraldine Farrar being among her pupils.
		The opera star Geraldine Farrar was born in Melrose....
	www.bartleby.com /cgi-bin/texis/webinator/sitesearch?FILTER=col65&query=Geraldine (806 words)

	Ferraro, Geraldine Anne - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Ferraro, Geraldine Anne
		Ferraro, a lawyer, was elected to Congress in 1981 and was selected in 1984 by Walter Mondale to be the USA's first female vice-presidential candidate from one of the major parties.
		Ferraro testified about the disease at a Senate hearing on 21 June, to appeal for more federal funding for myeloma research.
		The Democrats were defeated by the incumbent president Reagan, and Ferraro, damaged by investigations of her husband's business affairs, retired temporarily from politics.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Ferraro,%20Geraldine%20Anne (806 words)

	Welcome to The American Presidency
		Ferraro, Geraldine Anne (1935-), American political leader who was the first woman to be nominated for vice president by a major political party.
		In 1992 Ferraro once again tried to enter the national political arena, but she narrowly lost her bid for the New York Democratic Senate nomination after a bitter primary campaign in which she was again forced to respond to questions about her family's finances.
		Ferraro graduated from Marymount Manhattan College in 1956, taught English, and earned a law degree from Fordham University in 1960.
	ap.grolier.com /article?assetid=0154820-00&templatename=/article/article.html (806 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Geraldine Ferraro
		Ferraro, Geraldine Anne (1935-â) American politician, born on August 26, 1935, in Newburgh, New York.
		Farrar, Geraldine (1882-1967), American operatic soprano, born in Melrose, Massachusetts.
		This table shows the Democratic Party candidates for the office of president and vice president since the first use of the term "Democrat" in the...
	encarta.msn.com /Geraldine_Ferraro.html (806 words)

	Keppler Speakers: Geraldine Ferraro
		Ferraro served as a public delegate in February 1993 and was also the alternate U.S. delegate to the World Conference on Human Rights held in Vienna in June 1993, and was vice-chair of the U.S. Delegation at the Fourth World Conference on Women held in Beijing in September 1995.
		Geraldine also served on the Select Committee on Aging, where she was an advocate for the elderly, fighting proposed cuts in Social Security and Medicare.
		Ferraro was first elected to Congress from New York& Ninth Congressional District in Queens in 1978, and served three terms in the House of Representatives.
	www.keplerspeaks.com /speakers/ferrarogeraldine.asp (806 words)

	Geraldine Ferraro - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ferraro graduated from law school in 1960, one of only two women in her graduating class.
		She received a law degree from Fordham University School of Law, going to classes at night while working as a second-grade teacher in public schools during the day.
		House of Representatives from New York 's Ninth Congressional District in Queens in 1978 and served three two-year terms, compiling a generally liberal voting record on social and economic issues.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Geraldine_Ferraro (806 words)

	Geraldine Anne FERRARO
		The Rhetoric of Character Legitimation: Geraldine A. Ferraro and the 1984 Vice-Presidential Campaign.” Ph.D. diss., University of Southern California, 1989.
		Lewandowski, Monica A. “A Credible Candidate: The Campaign Oratory of Geraldine A. Ferraro.” Ph.D. dissertation, Indiana University, 1987.
		In the matter of Representative Geraldine A. Ferraro: Report of the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct together with dissenting views.
	www.infoplease.com /biography/us/congress/ferraro-geraldine-anne.html (159 words)

	Geraldine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Geraldine can also be used to refer to the FitzGerald dynasty in medieval Ireland, who possessed the titles of the Earl of Kildare and Earl of Desmond.
		This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
		The feminine form of the first name Gerald.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Geraldine (108 words)

	CNN.com - Then & Now: Geraldine Ferraro - Feb 18, 2005
		Ferraro left public office after the '84 election but returned to the public eye in 1992, when she ran unsuccessfully in the democratic primary for a Senate seat in New York.
		Ferraro was elected to Congress in 1978, winning a seat from the 9th Congressional District in Queens, and would be re-elected to two more two-year terms.
		Ferraro was diagnosed with the disease in 1998, after an unsuccessful run for Senate.
	www.cnn.com /2005/US/02/13/ccn25.tan.ferraro (951 words)

	Geraldine Ferraro By David Plotz
		To this day, Ferraro is defined by 1984, by the four months 13 years ago when she was the most famous woman in the world.
		You can read the transcript of the 1984 veep debate between Ferraro and George Bush: "Let me just say, first of all, that I almost resent, Vice President Bush, your patronizing attitude that you have to teach me about foreign policy." There are a number of Ferraro bios on the Web, including this comprehensive one.
		Despite her lionization by feminists, for example, Ferraro was not terribly progressive on women's issues.
	www.slate.com /?id=1845 (1125 words)

	Geraldine Ferraro to speak at CWRU's 2003 commencement convocation
		Ferraro was born in Newburgh, N.Y. She and her husband, realtor John Zaccaro, have three children, Donna, John and Laura and four grandchildren.
		Ferraro is president of G&L Strategies, a management consulting firm that provides corporations and global organizations counsel on creating productive and safe workplace environments, improves relationships of corporations with government and non-governmental organizations and develops initiatives designed to position corporations as responsible global citizens.
		Ferraro is a board member of the National Democratic Institute of International Affairs and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
	www.cwru.edu /pubaff/univcomm/2002/11-02/ferraro.htm (541 words)

	Famous Italians - Geraldine Anne Ferraro
		Geraldine Ferraro was the first woman nominated by a major
		In 1984, Ferraro was picked to run as Vice President of the United States on the Democratic Party ticket, with former Vice President Walter Mondale as the candidate for President.
		Ferraro ran successfully for Congress from New York City's 9th District in 1978.
	www.italian-american.com /ferraro.htm (355 words)

	Geraldine Ferraro Information
		My classmate and I have been assigned a research paper on Geraldine Ferraro, as well as the history of political buttons.
		Ferraro we would be greatly apprectiative if you could send it to us, or post it here on the forum.
	www.democrats.com /node/4793/print (41 words)

	Geraldine A. Ferraro -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Ferraro, Geraldine A. American politician who became the first woman to be nominated for vice president by a major political party in the United States.
		The first woman chosen to run as vice-president on the ticket of a major political party in the United States was Representative Geraldine Ferraro.
		in full Geraldine Anne Ferraro, married name Geraldine A. Zaccaro American politician who became the first woman to be nominated for vice president by a major political party in the United States.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9034089 (642 words)

	Geraldine A. Ferraro News - The New York Times
		Geraldine A Ferraro discloses that she is has been diagnosed with multiple myeloma, blood cancer that erodes bones and leads to death within 5 years for half of those with diagnosis; is taking thalidomide; will testify about her illness at Senate hearing this week; photo
		Virginia Fields quickly apologized to Geraldine Ferraro, the former vice presidential nominee, for a swipe at her by Ms.
		Geraldine Ferraro and John Zaccaro, Forest Hills, N.Y., Aug. 23, 2001 Ferraro: ''When you're healthy, you kind of think you're going to live forever.
	topics.nytimes.com /top/reference/timestopics/people/f/geraldine_a_ferraro (486 words)

	Geraldine Ferraro
		In addition to numerous articles, Ferraro, who holds honorary degrees from colleges and universities nationwide, has written three books: Ferraro: My Story (which recounts the ’84 campaign), Geraldine Ferraro: Changing History, and Framing a Life.
		Ferraro, who has testified before Congress to encourage funding for blood cancer research and the expedited process for approval of new drugs, continues to be active as a lecturer, teacher, author, policy expert and political figure.
		She taught second and fourth grade in the New York City public school system while putting herself through law school, obtaining a degree from Fordham University School of Law in 1960.
	www.hoag.org /PressRoom/PressReleases/031302circle1000.html (353 words)

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