Margaret Mary Heckler (born June 21 1931) is a Republican politician from Massachusetts who served in the United States House of Representatives for eight terms from 1967 until 1983 and was later the Secretary of Health and Human Services and Ambassador to Ireland under President Ronald Reagan. After her defeat in 1982 no woman would be elected to Congress from Massachusetts until Niki Tsongas in a special election in 2007.
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active years end date
1983-01-03, 1985-12-13, 1989-08-20
active years start date
1967-01-03, 1983-03-09, 1985-12-17
alma mater
Boston College Law School, Leiden University, Albertus Magnus College
birth date
1931-06-21
birth place
Flushing Queens
order in office
19th United States Ambassador to Ireland, 15th United States Secretary of Health and Human Services
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