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Mar 27, 1992 · For 23 years, Heather S. Foley worked in the shadows of Capitol Hill, a mysterious, reclusive figure attached to a rising star in the House of Representatives. As the unpaid chief of staff to...
Oct 19, 2013 · There Speaker Foley met Heather Strachan, a fellow Jackson staffer, who would become his wife in 1968. They had no children, but the marriage produced an exceptionally close personal and...
Oct 19, 2013 · His wife, Heather Foley, confirmed the death and said the cause was complications from strokes. The Washington state congressman had been ailing from conditions including pneumonia.
- Emily Langer
Oct 18, 2013 · In 1968, Mr. Foley married Heather Strachan, a lawyer who became an unofficial chief of staff for her husband.
Thomas Stephen Foley (March 6, 1929 – October 18, 2013) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 49th speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1989 to 1995. A member of the Democratic Party, Foley represented Washington's fifth district for thirty years (1965–1995). He was the first Speaker of the House in ...
In 1968, at age 39, Foley married Heather Strachan, an independent-minded 28 year-old he’d met five years earlier when both worked in Senator Jackson’s office. Heather, who had lived abroad while her father was attached to USAID posts in Greece, Korea, Latin America, West Pakistan, and Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), was in her final year at George ...
Oct 18, 2013 · In 1968, Foley married Heather Strachan, whom he’d met when both worked on Jackson’s staff in the early ’60s. She’s a member of the bar, but served for many years as his unpaid chief of ...
