Geraldine Ferraro

Geraldine Anne Ferraro was an American attorney, a Democratic Party politician, and a member of the United States House of Representatives. She was the first female vice presidential candidate representing a major American political party.

Geraldine Ferraro was born on August 26, 1935 in Newburgh, New York, the daughter of Antonetta L. Ferraro , a firstgeneration Italian American seamstress, and Dominick Ferraro, an Italian immigrant and owner of two restaurants. She had three brothers born before her, but one died in infancy and another at age three. Ferraro attended the parochial school Mount Saint Marys in Newburgh when she was young. Her father died of a heart attack in May 1944 , when she was eight. Ferraros mother soon invested and lost the remainder of the familys money, forcing the family to move to a lowincome area in the South Bronx while Ferraros mother worked in the garment industry to support them.

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