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LOWEY, Nita M. (1937-2025)

Democrat of New York

17th congressional district

Served in House 1989-2021

Total roll-call votes cast: 19,233

@NitaLowey

Biography

Representative from New York; born Nita Sue Melnikoff in New York, Bronx County, N.Y., July 5, 1937; graduated from Bronx High School of Science, Bronx, N.Y., 1955; B.S., Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Mass., 1959; staff, New York secretary of state for economic development and neighborhood preservation; deputy director, New York state division of economic opportunity, 1975-1985; New York state assistant secretary of state, 1985-1987; elected as a Democrat to the One Hundred First and to the fifteen succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1989-January 3, 2021); was not a candidate for reelection to the One Hundred Seventeenth Congress in 2020; chair, Committee on Appropriations (One Hundred Sixteenth Congress); died on March 15, 2025, in Harrison, N.Y.
Courtesy of Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

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