Connie Morella

Constance Albanese " Connie " Morella ( born February 12, 1931 in Somerville, Massachusetts) is a former American politician. Between 1987 and 2003, she represented the state of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Connie Albanese attended until 1948, the Somerville High School and then studied until 1954 at Boston University. This is followed by a further study completed at the American University in Washington DC to which she graduated in 1967. Between 1970 and 1987 she worked as a teacher at Montgomery College in Maryland. At the same time they hit as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. In the years 1971-1975 it belonged to the Women's Committee (Commission for Women ) at in Montgomery County; 1979-1986 she was sitting in the House of Maryland. In 1980 she sought unsuccessfully to their party's nomination for the congressional elections.

In the congressional elections of 1986 Morella was selected in the eighth electoral district of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where they became the successor of Michael D. Barnes on January 3, 1987. After seven elections she was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 2003, eight legislative sessions. In this time the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001 and the beginning of the Iraq war fell. In 2002, she was not re-elected.

After the end of their time in the U.S. House of Representatives Connie Morella served between 2003 and 2007 as U.S. ambassador to the OECD. Today, she is a member of the faculty of the American University in Washington.