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Bella trigger
Print with New York Mayor Ed Koch (left) and President Jimmy Carter (1978)

Bella Savitzky Abzug (born July 24, 1920 in New York City , New York , † March 31, 1998 ibid) was an American politician of the Democratic Party , feminist and peace fighter .

Life

Bella Savitzky was the daughter of Russian-Jewish immigrants who ran a butcher shop in the New York Bronx. She attended Walton High School in New York City and studied at Hunter College of the City University of New York and at Columbia University Law; as well as afterwards at the Jewish Theological Seminary . After graduating, she worked as a lawyer in New York City. From January 3, 1971 to January 3, 1977 she was a member of the United States House of Representatives . In 1976 she did not run for re-election; instead, she ran for her party's nomination for election toUS Senate . After she was initially considered the favorite, she ultimately lost to the more conservative Daniel Patrick Moynihan with 35:36 percent of the vote. This later won the actual election against incumbent James L. Buckley of the Conservative Party .

Bella Abzug's two subsequent candidacies were also unsuccessful. First, in 1977 she sought to be elected mayor of New York . In a very tight decision, she took fourth place with 16.6 percent of the votes in the primary, behind incumbent Abraham D. Beame (18 percent), Mario Cuomo (18.6 percent) and the victorious Ed Koch (19.9 percent) . The following year, the Democrats nominated her again for the election to the US House of Representatives, but there she lost just under two percentage points behind Republican Bill Green .

In 1990 she founded the Women's Environment & Development Organization together with Mim Kelber . Bella Abzug died on March 31, 1998 in New York City. Abzug was married to Martin Abzug and had two children.

Works

  • Bella! Ms. Abzug goes to Washington , (edited by Mel Ziegler), Saturday Review Press, 1972 ISBN 0-8415-0154-8
  • Gender gap: Bella Abzug's guide to political power for American women , Bella Abzug and Mim Kelber, Houghton Mifflin, 1984 ISBN 0-395-36181-8

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DIED: Bella Trigger . In: Der Spiegel . No. 15 , 1998 ( online ).
  2. ↑ www.ourcampaigns.com: NY US Senate - D Primary 1976
  3. ↑ www.ourcampaigns.com: NY District 18 Special 1978
  4. ^ New York Times: Bella Abzug, 77, Congresswoman And a Founding Feminist, Is Dead

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personal data
SURNAME Trigger, Bella
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Trigger, Bella Savitzky (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH March 31, 1998
Place of death New York City