Marjorie Margolies

Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 13th district
In office January 3, 1993 – January 3, 1995
Preceded by	R. Lawrence Coughlin
Succeeded by	Jon D. Fox
Personal details
Political party	Democratic
Spouse	Edward Mezvinsky

Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky (born June 21, 1942) served one term as a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

Marjorie Margolies was born in Philadelphia. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1963. She was a broadcast journalist for over twenty-four years, winning five Emmy Awards for her work. She was a CBS News Foundation Fellow, Columbia University, and worked as a television journalist at WCAU-TV from 1967 to 1971, and then with NBC from 1971 to 1991.

In 1992 she ran for an open seat in Congress for Pennsylvania's 13th congressional district, a largely suburban district outside Philadelphia which Republicans had held since 1916. After defeating Republican Jon D. Fox in a close contest, she became a member of the 103rd Congress. However, she was not re-elected. Losing in 1994 to her 1992 opponent, she was one of 34 Democratic incumbents who were defeated in the Republican Revolution. Her defeat was blamed on her vote for President Bill Clinton's controversial 1993 budget, for which she was the deciding vote. After the vote, Rep. Robert Walker (R-Pennsylvania) reportedly mocked her, jumping up and down and said "Goodbye, Marjorie" alluding to the fact that her deciding vote would cost her the seat. In a 2009 interview with the Daily Beast, Margolies-Mezvinksy said she was "surprised at the level of divisiveness and immaturity" she experienced while in Congress.[1] That same year, she completed A Woman's Place, a book with the other women in the class of 92. After her term in Congress, she was the Chair of the National Women’s Business Council, and the Director and Deputy Chair of the United States delegation to the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in 1995.

In 1998, she ran for Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania; she won the primary but as the running mate of Ivan Itkin, the ticket lost to Republicans Tom Ridge and Mark S. Schweiker.

She currently serves as the founder and chair of Women’s Campaign International (WCI), a group that provides advocacy training for women throughout the world. She is also a professor at the Fels Institute of Government at the University of Pennsylvania.

She was married to former Iowa Congressman Edward Mezvinsky. Their son, Marc Mezvinsky, is currently engaged to Chelsea Clinton, the daughter of former U.S. President Bill Clinton and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.

She is known to citizens in her home state of Pennsylvania as MMM or Triple M.

External links

• United States Congress. "Marjorie Margolies (id: M000129)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.