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    Barbara Boxer

    Former United States Senator from California

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  1. Education. Boxer established the Excellence in Education award to recognize teachers, parents, businesses and organizations working to make positive changes in education. Beginning in 1997, Boxer pesented the Excellence in Education Award to 38 recipients. [better source needed] Election and Electoral College reform

  2. May 22, 2010 · Education: B.A. in economics, Brooklyn College. Career highlights: stockbroker, 1962-1965; journalist, 1972-1974; congressional aide, 1974-1976; Marin County Board of Supervisors, 1976-1982;...

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  4. Oral History Project. Barbara Boxer served in the United States Senate from 1993 to 2017 as a Democrat representing the State of California. Her opposition to the Vietnam War drew her to politics, and in 1976 she won her first election to public office, serving on the Marin County Board of Supervisors.

  5. May 3, 2024 · Barbara Boxer (born November 11, 1940, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.) is an American politician whose ardent support for myriad progressive causes, including environmentalism and reproductive rights, while representing California as a Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives (1983–93) and Senate (1993–2017) contributed to her reputation as ...

  6. Born in Brooklyn, New York City, Boxer graduated from George W. Wingate High School and Brooklyn College. She worked as a stockbroker for several years before moving to California with her husband. During the 1970s, she worked as a journalist for the Pacific Sun and as an aide to U.S. Representative John L. Burton.

  7. She was born in Brooklyn, New York, the child of immigrants, in 1940. Boxer later recalled a conventional and happy middle-class childhood, which included education in the local public schools.

  8. Education. Bachelor's. Brooklyn College, 1962. Personal. Religion. Jewish. Barbara Boxer (b. November 11, 1940, in Brooklyn, NY) is a former Democratic member of the U.S. Senate from the state of California. Boxer served from 1993 to 2017. Boxer did not seek re-election to the Senate in 2016.

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