Patricia Schroeder, a former Colorado Democratic US Representative who spent many years advocating for women’s rights, has passed away. Her age was 82.
Schroeder passed on Monday night at a hospital in Celebration, Florida, surrounded by her family, according to her daughter Jamie Cornish, who spoke to CNN. According to Cornish, a stroke’s complications were the cause.
Schroeder was reportedly first elected to the US House of Representatives in 1972, according to a House biography. After that, he spent more than 20 years in House, where he was well-known for speaking out vehemently in favour of causes like gun control and women’s reproductive rights.
She was granted membership on the all-male Military Services Committee at the time.
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Schroeder was born in Portland, Oregon, to a teacher and an insurance agent for the aviation industry. He attended Harvard Law School and trained as a pilot. When she was elected to Congress, she already had two children.
According to Schroeder’s House biography, “my father was always engaged in politics and talked about it” when she was a child. At dinner, conversations regarding current events were always very detailed.
Schroeder stated in her autobiography, “24 Years of Housework… and the Home Is Still a Mess: My Life in Politics,” of being one of just 14 women in the House when she was first elected.
“The women in Congress had to fight practically every battle alone,” the author stated. “Whether it was for female pages (there were none) or a place to go to the bathroom.” According to her biography, the representative rose to prominence on Capitol Hill by the late 1980s for her spats with Republicans over military expenditures, reproductive freedom, and labour reform. In addition, she created the term “Teflon president” to describe Ronald Reagan’s notoriety despite his involvement in the Iran-Contra crisis.
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