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Foerstel, Karen.

Biographical dictionary of congressional women / Karen Foerstel.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-313-30290-1 (alk. paper)

1. United States. Congress--Biography--Dictionaries. 2. Women
legislators--United States--Biography--Dictionaries. I. Title.

JK1012.F57 1999

328.73′0082--dc21

[B] 99-17950

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Copyright © 1999 by Karen Foerstel

All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be
reproduced, by any process or technique, without the
express written consent of the publisher.

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 99-17950

ISBN: 0-313-30290-1

First published in 1999

Greenwood Press, 88 Post Road West, Westport, CT 06881

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Copyright Acknowledgments

The editor and publisher gratefully acknowledge permission to use excerpts from A Mi-
nority of Members: Women in the U.S. Congress by Hope Chamberlin, © 1973 by Hope Cham-
berlin. Reprinted by permission of Henry Holt and Company, LLC.

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