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Senate Years of Service: 1993- Party: Democrat
BOXER, Barbara, a Representative and a Senator from California; born Barbara Levy in
Brooklyn, Kings County, N.Y., November 11, 1940; attended public schools in
Brooklyn; graduated, Wingate High School 1958; B.A., Brooklyn College 1962;
stockbroker 1962-1965; newspaper editor 1972-1974; congressional aide
1974-1976; elected member, Board of Supervisors, Marin County, Calif.
1976-1982; delegate, California State Democratic convention 1983; elected as a
Democrat to the Ninety-eighth and to the four succeeding Congresses (January 3,
1983-January 3, 1993); was not a candidate for reelection to the House of
Representatives in 1992; elected to the United States Senate in 1992; reelected
in 1998 and 2004 for term ending January 3, 2011; chair, Committee on
Environment and Public Works (One Hundred Tenth Congress), Select Committee on
Ethics (One Hundred Tenth Congress).
BibliographyBoxer, Barbara.
Strangers in the Senate: Politics and the New Revolution of Women in
America. Washington, D.C.: National Press Books,
1994.
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