Marjorie Margolies

Marjorie Margolies - Mezvinsky ( born June 21, 1942 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American professor at the University of Pennsylvania, women's rights activist and former politician. The member of the Democratic Party represented their home state of Pennsylvania from 1993 to 1995 as a Member of the House of Representatives of the United States.

Career

Marjorie Margolies - Mezvinsky studied at the University of Pennsylvania, where he made in 1963 to an end. She then worked for 25 years as a journalist and has won several awards for their work.

In 1992 she ran for a seat in the House of Representatives of the United States for the 13th legislative district of Pennsylvania, which was won in 1916 by candidates of the Republican Party. After a narrow victory over Jon D. Fox, she moved into the Congress. Margolies - Mezvinsky was only for one term, from 1993 to 1995, MPs, their re-election, again was her opponent in the Fox failed mainly at their assent to the controversial budget plan of the then U.S. President Bill Clinton. She wanted to vote in the first vote against the budget; as this but then could not be adopted, she changed her mind and voted for it yet. Through her casting vote, the President reached the required majority for the budget.

" Finally, Marjorie Margolies - Mezvinsky came forward, voted yes and assured us the victory with one voice projection. The Democrats applauded for their courage, the Republicans mocked. They waved at her and sang, Goodbye, Margie ' ( ... there was sure they would lose re-election in their district so -. She was one of the few Democrats who represented a district in which the voters of the tax increases be affected more in the budget would be considered by the tax cuts contained therein. She had promised during the election campaign not to vote for tax increases ). "

After leaving politics Marjorie Margolies - Mezvinsky dedicated back the women's rights movement, it is, for example, one of the founders of the organization Women 's Campaign International and took for the United States participated in the UN World Conference on Women. Furthermore, she has worked as a professor at the Rock Institute of Government at the University of Pennsylvania.

She was married from 1975 to 2007 with Edward Mezvinsky. They moved eleven children large ( four children from his first marriage her husband, two of her adopted previously, two common sons and three adopted children together ). Her son Marc Mezvinsky is married to Chelsea Clinton, daughter of Bill Clinton and his wife, the former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.