Betsy McCaughey

Elizabeth Betsy McCaughey , formerly known as Betsy McCaughey Ross, is an American politician who was Lieutenant Governor of New York from 1995 to 1998, during the first term of Governor George Pataki. She unsuccessfully sought the Democratic Party nomination for Governor after Pataki dropped her from his 1998 ticket, and she ended up on the ballot under the Liberal Party line.

McCaughey and her twin brother, William, were born in Pittsburgh to Albert Peterken, a factory janitor, and his wife, Ramona. The family moved around the Northeastern United States for six years before it settled down in Westport, Connecticut, where McCaugheys father did maintenance and later engineering work at a nail clipper factory. McCaughey recalled her parents difficulty in affording medical treatment my brother was a serious asthmatic as a child. I remember my parents sitting at the kitchen table wondering if they could afford to take to the hospital.

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