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Geraldine Ferraro  

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  • Geraldine Anne Ferraro is a Democratic politician who served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives and was the first woman to be the vice-presidential nominee of a major political party. Ferraro received her undergraduate degree from Marymount Manhattan College and then her law degree from Fordham University School of Law in 1960. [Source: Encyclopedia of Political Communication; Ferraro, Geraldine (1935—)]

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