Washington DC., USA, 12th October, 1992 Marjorie Margolies, formerly known as Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania and a women's right activist. She is a former journalist and a Democratic politician. From 1993 to 1995 she was a member of the House of Representatives, representing Pennsylvania. She was a broadcast journalist for over twenty-four years, winning five Emmy Awards for her work. And she is Chelsea Clinton's mother in law Credit: Mark Reinstein
Washington DC. Marjorie Margolies, formerly known as Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania and a women's right activist. She is a former journalist and a Democratic politician. From 1993 to 1995 she was a member of the House of Representatives, representing Pennsylvania. Margolies was born in Philadelphia. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1963. She was a broadcast journalist for over twenty-four years, winning five Emmy Awards for her work. She worked as a television journalist at WCAU-TV from 1967 to 1969, was a CBS News Foundation Fellow, Columbia University from 1969 to 1970, and then worked for WRC-TV from 1975 until 1990. She was also a correspondent for the Today Show. In 1992 she ran for an open seat in Congress for Pennsylvania's 13th congressional district, a largely suburban district outside Philadelphia which Republicans had held since 1916. She defeated Bernard Tomkin in the Democratic primary, 79%-21%. In the general election, she defeated Republican State Representative Jon D. Fox by a margin of , or a difference of 1,373 votes. In 1994, she lost re-election to Fox in a rematch, 49%-45%, a difference of 8,181 votes. She was one of 34 Democratic incumbents who were defeated in the Republican Revolution. She was married to former Congressman Edward Mezvinsky, of Iowa, in 1975; they divorced in 2007. During their marriage, she was known as Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky. They raised eleven children together: four from his first marriage, two she had adopted on her own, two sons they had together, and three adopted children. In 1970, Margolies adopted a daughter from Korea, reportedly the first time a single American woman had adopted a foreign child. Their son, Marc Mezvinsky, married Chelsea Clinton, the daughter of former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, on July 31, 2010, in Rhinebeck, NY. He was a Goldman Sachs
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