Bella Abzug

Bella Savitzky deduction ( born July 24, 1920 in New York City, New York, † March 31, 1998 ibid ) was an American politician of the Democratic Party, feminist and pacifist.

Life

Bella Savitzky was the daughter of Russian-Jewish immigrants who ran a butcher shop in the Bronx, New York. She attended Walton High School in New York City and then studied at Hunter College of the City University of New York and Columbia University law; and in connection to the Jewish Theological Seminary. After her studies she worked as a lawyer in New York City. From January 3rd 1971 to January 3, 1977 she was a Member of Parliament in the House of Representatives of the United States. In 1976, she not stand for re- election; Instead, they applied for their party's nomination for election to the U.S. Senate. Having initially been considered a favorite, she succumbed ultimately just the conservative Daniel Patrick Moynihan with 35:36 percent of the vote. This won after the actual election against incumbent James L. Buckley of the Conservative Party.

The two following nominations from Bella Abzug were unsuccessful. First, it sought the 1977 lineup for the election as mayor of New York. In a very tight decision she won with 16.6 percent of the vote in the primary to fourth place behind incumbent Abraham D. Beame (18 percent ), Mario Cuomo ( 18.6 percent ) and the victorious Ed Koch ( 19.9 percent). The following year, the Democrats nominated her again for election to the U.S. House of Representatives, but there she lost nearly two percentage points off against Republican Bill Green.

In 1990 she founded together with Mim Kelber the Women's Environment & Development Organization '. 1998 Bella Abzug died in New York City. Deduction was married to Martin deduction and had two children.

Works

  • Bella! Ms. deduction goes to Washington, ( edited by Mel Ziegler ), Saturday Review Press, 1972 (ISBN 0-8415-0154-8 )
  • Gender gap: Bella Abzug 's guide to political power for American women, Bella Abzug and Mim Kelber, Houghton Mifflin, 1984 ( ISBN 0-395-36181-8 )
Jewish Theological Seminary of America Abraham Beame Bill Green (New York politician)
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