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1 day ago · Following the screening there will be a discussion between Zaccaro, Geraldine Ferraro's daughter, and Letty Cottin Pogrebin, a well-known writer, journalist and political activist, and longtime ...
Mar 26, 2011 · She was the pampered daughter of Antonetta and Dominick Ferraro, Italian immigrants who had lost a son, Gerard, in a car crash and were so overjoyed at her birth a few years later that they named...
SOUTH BEND, IN - Patrick Joseph Ferraro, 88, passed away Monday morning, April 29, 2019, in his residence with his wife and five children near his side after a relatively brief illness. Pat, or “Pasquale”, as he was often called by his kids who enjoyed his given Italian name, was born on August 7, 1930, in South Bend....
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- The 1984 Campaign
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From 1961 to 1974 Ferraro practiced law, had her three children—Donna, John Jr., and Laura—and worked in her husband's real estate business. In 1974, with her youngest child in the second grade, Ferraro agreed to serve as an assistant district attorney in Queens County. As an assistant DA, she created two special units, the Special Victims Bureau a...
Ferraro continued her active role within the Democratic Party. She served as a delegate to the Democratic Party's 1982 mid-term convention and was a key member of the Hunt Commission, which developed delegate selection rules for the 1984 convention. Then, in January of 1984, Ferraro was named chair of the Democratic Party Platform Committee for the...
Politically, Ferraro was seen to have several assets as a candidate. Democrats hoped that she would help to exploit the gender gap—that is, the clear difference in voting patterns between men and women that seemed to have emerged in the 1970s and 1980s, with women voting in greater numbers than men and voting for Democratic candidates and peace iss...
After Ferraro's term as a congresswoman expired in January of 1985, she wrote a book about the vice-presidential campaign. For a time, she chose to to keep a low political profile. In 1986, she passed up the opportunity to challenge Alphonse D'Amato, the incumbent Republican senator from New York. Still under public scrutiny her husband pleaded gui...
Most of the written work on Ferraro is in the popular press. Articles appeared in US News and World Report on July 16 and 23, 1984; Time on June 4, 1984; MS for July 1984; New York Magazine on July 16, 1984; Working Woman for October 1984; and McCall's for October 1984. In 1985 she wrote, with Linda Bird Francke, Ferraro: My Story(Bantam Books), wh...
SOUTH BEND, IN - Patrick Joseph Ferraro, 88, passed away Monday morning, April 29, 2019, in his residence with his wife and five children near his side after a relatively brief illness. Pat, or “Pasquale”, as he was often called by his kids who enjoyed his given Italian name, was born on August 7, 1930, in South Bend.
1 day ago · Finding His Way. Born in Houston, Texas, in 1952, Swayze grew up in a household with a devoted father, Jesse, and a difficult, exacting mother, Patsy.A dance teacher, Patsy forced her children to ...
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May 1, 2019 · SOUTH BEND, IN - Patrick Joseph Ferraro, 88, passed away Monday morning, April 29, 2019, in his residence with his wife and five children near his side after a relatively brief illness. Pat, or...
