Former Congresswoman Chisholm Dies at 80
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Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman elected to Congress and an outspoken advocate for women and minorities during seven terms in the House, died Saturday near Daytona Beach, friends said. She was 80.
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Lady Bird Johnson, the former first lady who championed conservation and worked tenaciously for the political career of her husband, Lyndon B. Johnson, died Wednesday, a family spokeswoman said. She was 94.
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Rep. Charles Norwood Jr., a blunt-spoken Georgia Republican who sold his dental practice and ran for Congress at age 52, died Tuesday after battling cancer and lung disease.
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Lady Bird Johnson, the former first lady who championed conservation and worked tenaciously for the political career of her husband, former President Lyndon B. Johnson, died Wednesday, a family spokeswoman said. She was 94.
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Jeane Kirkpatrick, the first female ambassador to the UN and member of Ronald Reagan's cabinet dies.
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Anita Brown, 63, who in the late 1990s overcame her fear of technology and became a major proponent of the Internet in the black community, died Sept. 8 of cardiac arrest at Washington Hospital Center. She lived in the District.
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Former Senator and Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen, a courtly Texan who as the Democrats&#039; vice presidential nominee in 1988 famously told rival Dan Quayle he was &quot;no Jack Kennedy,&quot; died Tuesday. He was 85.
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Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, an unabashed apostle of Reagan era conservatism and the first woman U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, has died.
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CHAPPAQUA, N.Y. &#151; A woman who lives on the same cul-de-sac as former President Clinton died Monday after a mysterious shooting on an isolated road that left her lawyer husband wounded, authorities said.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn.  - Pauline Gore, mother of former  Vice President Al Gore and widow of the late U.S. Sen. Albert  Gore, Sr., died at her home in Tennessee on Wednesday, a  funeral home said. She was 92.
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Former Rep. Jennifer Dunn, who became the most powerful Republican woman in Washington state history during six terms representing Seattle's east-side suburbs, died Wednesday after developing a blood clot in her Virginia apartment, her family said. She was 66.
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Democrat Major Owens was preceded in Congress by Shirley Chisholm, the first African American woman elected to Congress. She was also the first black woman to wage a serious campaign for president. What year did she run for that office?  1976 1980 1972 1968
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Former Gov. Ann Richards, the witty and flamboyant Democrat who went from homemaker to national political celebrity, died Wednesday night after a battle with cancer, a family spokeswoman said. She was 73.
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Tammy Faye Bakker Messner, the  televangelist who helped lead the PTL ministry before its  collapse in a sex and corruption scandal, has died at age 65,  her Web site reported on Saturday.
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usan Mary Alsop, who proclaimed that she saw &quot;no future in being an ordinary person&quot; and became a celebrated political hostess and later an author, died on Wednesday at her home in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington. She was 86.
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Former U.S. Sen. Thomas Eagleton of Missouri, running mate of Democratic presidential candidate Sen. George McGovern in 1972, died on Sunday from heart problems at age 77, a statement by his family said.
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Lady Bird Johnson, whose helped President Lyndon B. Johnsonâs road to the White House, has died at 94.