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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New YorkFERRARO, Geraldine Anne(1935—)FERRARO, Geraldine Anne, a Representative from New York; born in Newburgh, Orange County, N.Y., August 26, 1935; graduated from Marymount School, Tarrytown, N.Y., 1952; B.A., Marymount College, New York, N.Y., 1956; J.D., Fordham University School of Law, New York, N.Y., 1960; lawyer, private practice; assistant district attorney, Queens County, N.Y., 1974-1978; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-sixth and to the two succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1979-January 3, 1985); was not a candidate for reelection to the Ninety-ninth Congress in 1984, but was the unsuccessful Democratic candidate for Vice President of the United States; fellow of the Institute of Politics, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 1988-1992; president, International Institute for Women’s Political Leadership; unsuccessful candidate for nomination to the United States Senate in 1992 and 1998; permanent member, United Nations Commission on Human Rights, 1993-1996; is a resident of Forest Hills, N.Y. Baaske, Kevin Timothy. The Rhetoric of Character Legitimation: Geraldine A. Ferraro and the 1984 Vice-Presidential Campaign.” Ph.D. diss., University of Southern California, 1989. Elmes-Crahall, Jane Matilda. Gender as Exigence: A Situational Analysis of the 1984 Vice-Presidential Campaign of Geraldine Ferraro. Ph.D. diss., University of Pittsburgh, 1991. Ferraro, Geraldine A. Changing History: Women, Power, and Politics. Introduction by Ann Richards. Wakefield, RI: Moyer Bell, Distributed by Publishers Group West, 1993. ———. Changing History: Writings on Current Affairs. Mount Kisco, N.Y.: Moyer Bell, 1992. Ferraro, Geraldine A., and Catherine Whitney. Framing a Life. New York: Scribner, 1998. Ferraro, Geraldine A., with Linda Bird Francke. Ferraro: My Story. New York: Bantam Books, 1985. “Geraldine Anne Ferraro” in Women in Congress, 1917-1990. Prepared under the direction of the Commission on the Bicentenary by the Office of the Historian, U.S. House of Representatives. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1991. Katz, Lee Michael. My Name is Geraldine Ferraro: An Unauthorized Biography. New York: New American Library, 1984. Lewandowski, Monica A. “A Credible Candidate: The Campaign Oratory of Geraldine A. Ferraro.” Ph.D. dissertation, Indiana University, 1987. Uhlenkott, Linda Anne. “Women’s Voices in Congress: The Rhetoric of Geraldine Ferraro, Pat Schroeder and Barbara Boxer. Ph.D. diss., University of Nevada, Reno, 1996. U.S. Congress. House. In the matter of Representative Geraldine A. Ferraro: Report of the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct together with dissenting views. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1984. Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present |
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