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« on: March 26, 2011, 02:37:29 PM »




Geraldine Ferraro, 1st woman VP candidate, dead at 75

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Last Updated: 1:24 PM, March 26, 2011
Posted: 12:24 PM, March 26, 2011


BOSTON — Geraldine Ferraro, who in 1984 became the first woman to run for vice president on a major party ticket, only to lose in a landslide, died today. She was 75.

Ferraro died at Massachusetts General Hospital, where she was being treated for blood cancer. She died just before 10 a.m., said Amanda Fuchs Miller, a family friend who worked for Ferraro in her 1998 Senate bid and was acting as a spokeswoman for the family.

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