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Louise Slaughter

Louise Slaughter (14 August 1929-16 March 2018) was a member of the US House of Representatives (D-NY 30) from 1987 to 1993 (succeeding Fred J. Eckert and preceding Jack Quinn), from NY 28 from 1993 to 2013 (succeeding Matthew F. McHugh), and from NY 25 from 2013 to 2018 (succeeding Ann Marie Buerkle and preceding Joseph D. Morelle).

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Dorothy Louise McIntosh was born in Lynch, Kentucky in 1929, and she worked for Procter & Gamble and in the Perinton Greenlands Association in New York before serving in the Monroe County Legislature. In 1975, she became Mario Cuomo's regional coordinator in the Rochester area, and she served in the State Assembly from 1983 to 1986. In 1986, she was elected to the US House of Representatives, and she would remain in office for 32 years. She was affiliated with the Progressive Democrats, and she was the oldest member of the US Congress at the time of her death in office in 2018 at the age of 88.

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