biography
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Grasso, Ella
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originally Tambussi
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| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1919–89)
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| biography:
| US representative and governor, born in Windsor Locks, Connecticut, USA. She studied at Mt Holyoke and went on to serve in the state house of representatives (Democrat, 1953–5), becoming Connecticut's secretary of state (1958–70). In the US House of Representatives (1971–5) she sponsored the Emergency Employment Act of 1971. The first woman elected governor of any state in her own right (1975–80), she was fiscally hampered from pursuing progressive legislation. |
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