Geraldine Ferraro

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Geraldine Ferraro as Congressman (1979–1985)

Geraldine Anne Ferraro (born August 26, 1935 in Newburgh , Orange County , New York , † March 26, 2011 in Boston , Massachusetts ) was an American politician in the Democratic Party and a member of the House of Representatives of the United States . She was the first female candidate from a major US party for the vice presidency in the US election in 1984 .

Life

Geraldine Ferraro, who was of Italian descent, attended Marymount School in Tarrytown until 1952 . She left Marymount College in New York City in 1956 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. At the Law School of Fordham University in New York, she was awarded a Juris Doctor degree in 1960 . From 1974 to 1978 she was a teacher , attorney, and a member of the Queens County Attorney's Office .

Ferraro was elected to the US House of Representatives in 1978 for the Democrats in New York's 9th  Congressional District. With the two-time re-election, her term lasted from January 3, 1979 to January 3, 1985. She belonged to the committees for public works (Public Works Committee) , finance (Budget Committee) and Post (Post Office Committee) .

In the run-up to the 1984 presidential election , she was elected by former Vice President Walter Mondale as his running mate for the office of Vice President while he was running for President . Although she was not the first candidate for the vice-presidency, as Marietta Stow had already applied for the office in 1884 , she was the first candidate for one of the major parties. The good polls Mondale got when he chose her didn't last until November, and they were landslide defeated by then-incumbents, President Ronald Reagan and Vice-President George Bush .

After the defeat in 1984, she led two unsuccessful election campaigns to become a member of the US Senate , but in neither of the two cases received her party's nomination for candidacy: in 1992 she was defeated by Robert Abrams with a difference of around 10,000 votes, which in the overall result was one One percentage point behind; In 1998 she then lost significantly to Charles Schumer . From 1988 to 1992 she was a Fellow of the Institute of Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University . During Bill Clinton's presidency , she was a permanent member of the UN Human Rights Commission from 1993 to 1996 . She was President of the International Institute for Women's Political Leadership .

During the 2008 presidential campaign , she resigned as a member of Hillary Clinton's campaign team after telling Barack Obama that he would only be where he was because he was a man who was not white.

Ferraro has published several books, the first being her autobiography Ferraro: My Story from 1985. In 1993, she published a collection of her speeches in her second book, Changing History: Women, Power and Politics . In 1998 she described the life story of her immigrant mother under the title Framing a Life: A Family Memoir .

Ferraro was married to real estate agent John Zaccaro and had three children with him. She died of bone cancer .

In a statement, President Barack Obama paid tribute to Ferrari's struggle for equal rights for women. It is thanks to their career and their ideals that his daughters Sasha and Malia grew up in a more just country.

Quote

On the occasion of Mondale and Ferraro's failure in the presidential election, she said:

“Election campaigns, even if you lose them, serve a purpose. My candidacy showed that the days of discrimination are numbered. American women will never be second class citizens again. "

- Geraldine Anne Ferraro

Web links

Commons : Geraldine Ferraro  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ MSNBC: Geraldine Ferraro Dies at 75
  2. ^ People.com, The Making of a Trailblazer
  3. ↑ Geraldine Ferraro: Obama is Winning because he's not white ( Memento from March 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), March 11, 2008.
  4. ↑ Ferraro's Obama Remarks Become Talk of Campaign
  5. ↑ Geraldine Ferraro: Ferraro: My Story . Bantam, 1985, ISBN 0-553-05110-5 .
  6. ^ Geraldine A. Ferraro: Changing History: Women, Power and Politics . Moyer Bell, 1993, ISBN 1-55921-077-X .
  7. ^ Geraldine A. Ferraro: Framing a Life: A Family Memoir . Scribner's, 1998, ISBN 0-684-85404-X .
  8. ↑ Die Welt: USA: Political pioneer Geraldine Ferraro has died
  9. ↑ Der Standard: Political pioneer Geraldine Ferraro is dead
personal data
SURNAME Ferraro, Geraldine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ferraro, Geraldine Anne (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician (democrat)
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Newburgh , New York
DATE OF DEATH March 26, 2011
Place of death Boston , Massachusetts