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Geraldine Anne Ferraro was born on August 26, 1935, in Newburgh, New York, the daughter of Antonetta L. Ferraro (née Corrieri), a first-generation Italian American seamstress, and Dominick Ferraro, an Italian immigrant (from Marcianise, Campania) and owner of two restaurants.
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Mother of Vice-Presidential Canidate and Politician Geraldine Anne Ferraro. Wife of Dominick Ferraro. She was a New York Native who lived a quiet life shielded from her famous daughter's publicity.
AJ Forrisi | PUBLISHED: November 19, 2022. Born on August 26, 1936, to first-generation Italian seamstress, Antonetta L. Ferraro and an Italian immigrant from Marcianse, Campania, Dominick Ferraro, Geraldine Ferraro became an American Politician, diplomat, and attorney.
- Attorney and Congresswoman
- A Leader in The Democratic Party
- The 1984 Campaign
- Keeping The Liberal Faith
- Further Reading
From 1961 to 1974 Ferraro practiced law, had her three children—Donna, John Jr., and Laura—and worked in her husband's real estate business. In 1974, with her youngest child in the second grade, Ferraro agreed to serve as an assistant district attorney in Queens County. As an assistant DA, she created two special units, the Special Victims Bureau a...
Ferraro continued her active role within the Democratic Party. She served as a delegate to the Democratic Party's 1982 mid-term convention and was a key member of the Hunt Commission, which developed delegate selection rules for the 1984 convention. Then, in January of 1984, Ferraro was named chair of the Democratic Party Platform Committee for the...
Politically, Ferraro was seen to have several assets as a candidate. Democrats hoped that she would help to exploit the gender gap—that is, the clear difference in voting patterns between men and women that seemed to have emerged in the 1970s and 1980s, with women voting in greater numbers than men and voting for Democratic candidates and peace iss...
After Ferraro's term as a congresswoman expired in January of 1985, she wrote a book about the vice-presidential campaign. For a time, she chose to to keep a low political profile. In 1986, she passed up the opportunity to challenge Alphonse D'Amato, the incumbent Republican senator from New York. Still under public scrutiny her husband pleaded gui...
Most of the written work on Ferraro is in the popular press. Articles appeared in US News and World Report on July 16 and 23, 1984; Time on June 4, 1984; MS for July 1984; New York Magazine on July 16, 1984; Working Woman for October 1984; and McCall's for October 1984. In 1985 she wrote, with Linda Bird Francke, Ferraro: My Story(Bantam Books), wh...
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Antonetta L. Ferraro was born in 1905. Antonetta passed away in 1990, at age 85. She was buried in Calvary Cemetery (All Sections), Long Island City, New York, United States.
