Mary Bono is an American politician, businesswoman, and lobbyist who served Palm Springs and most of central and eastern Riverside County, California, in the US House of Representatives from 1998 to 2013.
23 Facts About Mary Bono
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Mary Bono sat on the Energy and Commerce Committee and was chairwoman of the Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade.
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In 1998, Mary Bono served on the House Judiciary Committee that approved articles of impeachment against President Bill Clinton.
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Mary Bono served in Congress until losing her 2012 reelection bid.
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In March 2013, Mary Bono became a senior vice president at the Washington, DC-based federal affairs firm Faegre Baker Daniels Consulting.
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Mary Bono graduated from South Pasadena High School in 1979, then from the University of Southern California in 1984 with a Bachelor of Arts in art history.
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In 1998, Mary Bono won the Republican nomination for the special election to succeed her late husband in what was then California's 44th congressional district.
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Mary Bono was then elected to Congress on April 7,1998.
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Mary Bono won election to a full term on November 3,1998.
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That same year, Mary Bono was added to the House Judiciary Committee by the Republican leadership in anticipation of the consideration of impeachment proceedings against President Clinton, thus becoming the only Republican woman on the committee during the impeachment inquiry against Bill Clinton.
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Mary Bono voted along party lines on all four motions for impeachment in both the committee and on the House floor, despite other moderate Republican House members voting against Articles II, III, and IV.
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The daughter of a veteran, Mary Bono played a key role in creation of VA clinics in Blythe and Palm Desert, California.
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In 2013, Bono was a signatory to an amicus curiae brief submitted to the Supreme Court in support of same-sex marriage during the Hollingsworth v Perry case.
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Mary Bono was chairwoman of the House Energy Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade.
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Mary Bono was the first Republican woman to chair this subcommittee.
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Mary Bono was co-chair of the Congressional Caucus on Prescription Drug Abuse.
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In March 2013, Mary Bono became a senior vice president at the Washington, DC-based federal affairs firm Faegre Baker Daniels Consulting.
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Also in June 2013, Mary Bono helped lead expansion of Faegre Baker Daniels and Faegre Baker Daniels Consulting into Silicon Valley, in her home state of California.
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Sonny Mary Bono served as Mayor of Palm Springs from 1988 to 1992 before being elected to Congress in 1994.
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Sonny Mary Bono died on January 5,1998, in a skiing accident.
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In 2001, Mary Bono married Wyoming businessman Glenn Baxley about 18 months after they met in Mexico.
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On December 15,2007, Mary Bono married Congressman Connie Mack IV in Asheville, North Carolina.
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In September 2015, Bono married former astronaut and retired Navy rear admiral Stephen S Oswald.