11 Facts About Sarah Brady

Sarah Jane Brady was a prominent advocate for gun control in the United States.

Sarah Brady was born Sarah Jane Kemp in Kirksville, Missouri to L Stanley Kemp, a high school teacher and later FBI agent, and Frances Kemp, a former teacher and homemaker.

Sarah Brady was raised in Alexandria, Virginia, where she graduated from Francis C Hammond High School in 1959.

Sarah Brady married James Brady in Alexandria on July 21,1973.

Sarah Brady then worked as an administrative aide, first for Mike McKevitt and then for Joseph J Maraziti.

Sarah Brady's husband sustained a permanently disabling head wound during the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan, which occurred on March 30,1981.

James Sarah Brady remained as Press Secretary for the remainder of Reagan's administration, primarily in a titular role.

Alongside her husband, Sarah Brady became "one of the nation's leading crusaders for gun control".

Sarah Brady was chairwoman of the Brady Campaign from 2000 until her death in 2015.

Sarah Brady died at the age of 73 on April 3,2015, in Alexandria, Virginia, from pneumonia.

In 2002, Sarah Brady published her autobiography, A Good Fight.