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Geraldine Ferraro Dead at 75

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Huffington Post and multiple news sources reporting:

Geraldine Ferraro, a Democrat and the first major female vice presidential candidate, passed away on Saturday, according to multiple reports on a statement released by her family.

Jeff Zeleny at the New York Times reports that at the age of 75, Ferraro died of complications from blood cancer at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Ferraro was the first woman and first Italian-American to run on a major party national ticket. According to a statement released by her family, she died surrounded by her loved ones after battling multiple myeloma for twelve years. Her family said of the loss:

“Geraldine Anne Ferraro Zaccaro was widely known as a leader, a fighter for justice, and a tireless advocate for those without a voice. To us, she was a wife, mother, grandmother and aunt, a woman devoted to and deeply loved by her family. Her courage and generosity of spirit throughout her life waging battles big and small, public and personal, will never be forgotten and will be sorely missed.”

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  1. There were three other young woman working with me as “trackers” we immediately yelled with excitement and teared up just a little. Finally someone like us was going to get a chance to play politics with the boys. Each of us were surprised at how proud we were to be woman in politics. We had all worked a tough primary season with Walter Mondale never thinking it possible that a woman would be placed on the ticket.

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