Geraldine Ferraro
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Geraldine Anne Ferraro was an American politician, diplomat, and attorney who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1979 to 1985, representing New York's 9th congressio
Ferraro in 1998
Ferraro's childhood home in Newburgh, New York, where she also lived until age ten
Ferraro and her family lived in this house in Forest Hills Gardens, Queens, during her time in the House of Representatives, her vice-presidential campaign, and until the early 2000s.
As with many representatives, Ferraro issued regular newsletters to her constituents.
Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 6, 1984. Incumbent Republican president Ronald Reagan and his running mate, incumbent vice president George H. W. Bush, were re-electe
Geraldine Ferraro
…to 1985, representing New York's 9th congressional district. A member of the Democratic Party, she was the party's vice presidential nominee in the 1984 presidential election, running alongside presidential nominee and former Vice President Walter Mondale; this made her the first female vice-presidential nominee representing…
Ronald Reagan 1985 presidential portrait
Walter Mondale 1977 vice presidential portrait
President Reagan and Vice President Bush at the 1984 Republican National Convention in Dallas
Mondale campaigning in Pennsylvania