Geraldine Anne Ferraro by Itzia Angel (Figure)

Geraldine Anne Ferraro was born on August 26, 1935 in New York who's parents wore Italian immigrants she was an American attorney and former of the Unites States House of Representatives. She was the first female Vice President candidate representing a Major American political party Ferraro grew up in New York and became a teacher and lawyer. in 1974 she joined the Queen Country District Atourney's office.

When she heard the new special victims. Bureau that deal with sex crimes, child abuse and domestic violence. she was elected to congress in 1984, former Vice President and Presidential candidate Walter Mondale selected Ferraro to be his running mate in the upcoming election. In doing so she also became the only Italian American to be a major party national nominee. the positive polling receives when when joined him did not last until November ad they where deferred in an electoral landslide by incumbent president Ronald Reagan and Vice President George W. Bush.

She wan campaigns for a seat in the United States Senate in 1992 & 1998. Both times emergence as the from runner for her party's nomination, but she lost in the primaries both times. she served as a United States Senate to the United National Commission on Human Rights from 1993 until 1996 in the Presidential administration of Bill Clinton. During the Presidential elections of 2008, she served as a fun racier for Hillary Clinton. An uproar following controversial remarks Ferraro made about roles of sexism and race in the elections led to her resignation.

"I went from being the kid who lost his father at the age of 8 and who lived in South Bronx to almost going to line in the White House"
"That just tells you what this country is all about"

Ferraro, who will turn 70 in August and serves as president of the global consulting firm G&L Strategies. "That just tells you what this country is all about"

"All these phenomenal things. I want to focus on the fact that it is not me, personally, so much as it is the campaign and the candidacy, because I do think it made a difference for this country."