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Boxer, Barbara

LC control no.n 93084010
Descriptive conventionsrda
LC classificationPS3602.O923
Personal name headingBoxer, Barbara
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Variant(s)Levy, Barbara, 1940-
See alsoCorporate body: Democratic Party (U.S.)
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Corporate body: Marin County (Calif.). Board of Supervisors
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Corporate body: United States. Congress. House
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Corporate body: United States. Congress. Senate
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Associated countryUnited States
LocatedCalifornia
Birth date19401111
Place of birthBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Field of activityPolitics, Practical Fiction
AffiliationBrooklyn College
Democratic Party (U.S.)
Marin County (Calif.). Board of Supervisors
United States. Congress. House
United States. Congress. Senate
Profession or occupationLegislators Novelists
Found inStrangers in the Senate, 1993: CIP t.p. (Senator Barbara Boxer)
Biographical directory of the United States Congress online, viewed July 12, 2012 (Boxer, Barbara, a Senator and a Representative from California; born Barbara Levy in Brooklyn, Kings County, N.Y., November 11, 1940)
Wikipedia, Jan. 15, 2013: (Barbara Boxer; Barbara Levy Boxer (born November 11, 1940) is the junior United States Senator from California (since 1993). A member of the Democratic Party, she previously served in the U.S. House of Representatives (1983-1993); Born in Brooklyn, New York, Boxer graduated from Brooklyn College. She worked as a stockbroker for several years before moving to California; served on the Marin County Board of Supervisors for six years (1977-1983); Boxer's first novel, A Time to Run was published in 2005; Her second novel Blind Trust was released in July 2009)
Bio. dir. of the U.S. Congress website, Sept. 25, 2013 (Boxer, Barbara, a Senator and a Representative from California; born Barbara Levy in Brooklyn, Kings County, N.Y., November 11, 1940; attended public schools in Brooklyn; graduated, Wingate High School 1958; B.A., Brooklyn College 1962; stockbroker 1962-1965; newspaper editor 1972-1974; congressional aide 1974-1976; elected member, Board of Supervisors, Marin County, Calif. 1976-1982; delegate, California State Democratic convention 1983; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-eighth and to the four succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1983-January 3, 1993); was not a candidate for reelection to the House of Representatives in 1992; elected to the United States Senate in 1992; reelected in 1998, 2004, and again in 2010 for term ending January 3, 2017; chair, Committee on Environment and Public Works (One Hundred Tenth to One Hundred Thirteenth Congresses), Select Committee on Ethics (One Hundred Tenth to One Hundred Thirteenth Congresses))
Associated languageeng