Heckler, Margaret

LC control no.	n 80060647
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Heckler, Margaret *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	O'Shaughnessy, Margaret Mary Heckler, Margaret M.
Located	Massachusetts Arlington (Va.)
Birth date	1931-06-21
Death date	2018-08-06
Place of birth	New York (N.Y.)
Place of death	Arlington (Va.)
Field of activity	United States--Politics and government Medical policy Social policy Diplomatic and consular service, American
Affiliation	United States. Congress. House United States. Department of Health and Human Services United States. Embassy (Ireland)
Profession or occupation	Legislators Cabinet officers Ambassadors
Found in	The Work of a Congresswoman. [FS] 1974. United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance. Nominations of Margaret M. Heckler and John A. Svehn, 1983 (x-ref) t.p. (Margaret M. Heckler, to be Secretary of Dept. of Health and Human Services) p. 4 (b. Margaret Mary O'Shaughnessy) Biog. dir. of the U.S. Cong. online, viewed Sept. 29, 2010 (Heckler, Margaret M., a Representative from Mass.; b. Margaret Mary O'Shaughnessy, June 21, 1931) Washington post WWW site, viewed Aug. 7, 2018 (Margaret M. Heckler, an eight-term Republican congresswoman from Massachusetts who later became secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services under President Ronald Reagan before serving as U.S. ambassador to Ireland, died Aug. 6 [2018] in Arlington, Va; she was 87; in 1966, she unseated a former speaker of the House to win the Republican nomination for her district in suburban Boston; when she took office in 1967, was one of only 11 women in the U.S. House of Representatives; 16 years in the House; eased out of her job as HHS secretary in October 1985 and offered the job of U.S. ambassador to Ireland; served in that position until 1989; retired to Arlington; Margaret Mary O'Shaughnessy was born June 21, 1931, in the Flushing section of Queens; husband John M. Heckler)