1. Marjorie Margolies is a fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Fels Institute of Government, an adjunct faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania, and a women's rights activist.
16 Facts About Marjorie Margolies
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Marjorie Margolies is a former journalist and a Democratic politician.
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Marjorie Margolies graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1963.
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Marjorie Margolies was a broadcast journalist for over twenty-four years, winning five Emmy Awards for her work.
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Marjorie Margolies worked as a television journalist at WCAU-TV from 1967 to 1969, was a CBS News Foundation Fellow, Columbia University from 1969 to 1970, and then worked for WRC-TV from 1975 until 1990.
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Marjorie Margolies was one of 54 Democratic incumbents who were defeated in the Republican Revolution.
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Marjorie Margolies had opposed the bill, until the President called her.
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Marjorie Margolies wrote in The Washington Post that she was glad that she had cast her vote as she had, and urged vulnerable Democrats in Congress to vote for the healthcare bill in March 2010.
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Marjorie Margolies serves as the founder and chair of Women's Campaign International, a group that provides advocacy training for women throughout the world.
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Marjorie Margolies is an adjunct professor at the Fels Institute of Government at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Marjorie Margolies became the running mate for State Representative Ivan Itkin.
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In 2000, Marjorie Margolies decided to run for US Senate for the seat held by Republican Rick Santorum.
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In May 2013, Marjorie Margolies filed paperwork to run in the Democratic congressional primary in her former district in 2014.
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On May 20,2014, Marjorie Margolies lost the primary election to Boyle.
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Marjorie Margolies married Edward Mezvinsky of Iowa in 1975; they divorced in 2007.
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In 1970, Marjorie Margolies adopted a daughter from Korea; this was reportedly the first time an unmarried American woman had adopted a foreign child.