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Date of Birth

30 November 1924, Brooklyn, New York, USA

Date of Death

1 January 2005, Ormond Beach, Florida, USA (complications from strokes)

Birth Name

Shirley Anita St. Hill

Spouse

Arthur Hardwick Jr.	(26 November 1977 - 1986) (his death)
Conrad Chisholm	(8 October 1949 - February 1977) (divorced)

Trivia

Along with Bella Abzug and Patsy Mink, became among the first women to seek the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in 1972. She went on to receive 152 delegates and win the New Jersey primary coming into the convention.

Member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.

U.S. representative from New York (3 January 1969 - 3 January 1983); in 1969 she became the first black woman elected to Congress.

Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume 7, 2003-2005, pages 83-85. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2007.

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