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Marjorie Margolies
Marjorie Margolies (formerly Margolies-Mezvinsky) is a Jewish American professor and politician who formery served in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Margolies (born June 21, 1942) was born in Philadelphia and graduated from the University of Pennsyvania in 1963. From 1967 to 1990, Margolies worked as a broadcast journalist, winning five Emmy Awards for her work.
In 1992, Margolies ran for an open seat in Congress from Pennsylvania's 13th district and defeated her Republican challenger in the general election. In 1994, Margolies lost in her first re-election bid.
After her term in Congress, Margolies 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.
She currently serves as the founder and chair of Women’s Campaign International (WCI), a group that provides advocacy training for women throughout the world. She is also a professor at the Fels Institute of Government at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Marjorie Margolies
American politician (born 1942)
Marjorie Margolies (mar-GOH-leez;[2] formerly Margolies-Mezvinsky; born June 21, 1942) is a fellow at the University of PennsylvaniaFels Institute of Government, an adjunct faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania, and a women's rightsactivist. She is a former journalist and a Democratic politician. From 1993 to 1995, she was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, representing Pennsylvania's 13th congressional district.
Margolies cast the deciding vote in favor of President Bill Clinton's 1993 budget proposal.
Early life, education, and journalism career
Margolies was born in Philadelphia. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1963.[3] She was a broadcast journalist for over twenty-four years, winning five Emmy Awards for her work.[4] She worked as a television journalist at WCAU-TV from 1967 to 1969, was a CBS News Foundation Fellow, Columbia University from 1969 to 1970,[3] and then worked for WRC-TV from 1975 until 1990.[4] S
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MARGOLIES-MEZVINSKY, Marjorie
A longtime television journalist, Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky won election to the U.S. House in 1992. Her brief congressional career turned, quite literally, on a single vote when the Pennsylvania Congresswoman abruptly backed the William J. (Bill) Clinton administration’s budget after being an outspoken critic of the legislation.
Marjorie Margolies was born on June 21, 1942, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, daughter of Herbert and Mildred Margolies. “Margie always kept me busy,” her mother said, recalling a schedule that involved multiple ballet lessons each week, sports, cheerleading, honor roll academics, and finishing junior high two years early.1 After graduating from Baltimore’s Forest Park High School in 1959, Margolies earned a BA from the University of Pennsylvania in 1963. She worked as a television reporter for a Philadelphia NBC affiliate in 1967 and, from 1969 to 1970, she was a CBS News Foundation Fellow at Columbia University.
In 1970, at age 28, she covered a story on Korean orphans and was so moved by the experience that she bec
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