1. Nicola Dickson "Niki" Tsongas is an American politician who served as a US Representative from Massachusetts from 2007 to 2019.
14 Facts About Niki Tsongas
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Niki Tsongas held the seat formerly held by her husband, the late Paul Tsongas, for the district numbered as from 2007 to 2013 and as from 2013 to 2019.
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Niki Tsongas was born Nicola Dickson Sauvage on April 26,1946, in Chico, California.
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Niki Tsongas's mother, Marian Susan, was an artist and copywriter, and her father, Colonel Russell Elmer Sauvage, was an engineer in the United States Army Air Forces who survived the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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Niki Tsongas graduated in 1964 from Narimasu American High School in Japan while her father was stationed at Fuchu Air Force Base.
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Niki Tsongas spent one year at Michigan State University, then transferred to Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, graduating in 1968 with a Bachelor of Arts in religion.
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Niki Tsongas earned her Juris Doctor from Boston University and started Lowell's first all-female law practice.
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Niki Tsongas interned in Arlington, Virginia, for presidential candidate Eugene McCarthy during summer 1967; at a party there she met Paul Niki Tsongas, then an aide to Republican Congressman Brad Morse.
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Niki Tsongas said she would, and it was reported that Ogonowski would not.
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In 2010, along with other women in Congress, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Niki Tsongas visited Afghanistan to oversee the war effort.
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Niki Tsongas is an advocate for universal health care and supports a public health insurance option.
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Niki Tsongas briefly considered a run, but decided she would best be able to serve the people of Massachusetts by staying in the House, and endorsed fellow Representative Ed Markey.
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Niki Tsongas discussed the river's history and past pollution problems in her testimony about the bill.
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Niki Tsongas was a member of the Congressional Arts Caucus and the US-Japan Caucus.