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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 and One Hundred Eleventh
Congresses), Select Committee on Ethics (One Hundred Tenth and One Hundred
Eleventh Congresses).
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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