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New York State Senate

Elizabeth Crowley Carries On
The Family Tradition of Public Service

By Tom Deignan
IA Newsletter August 20, 2022

August 19, 2022 by Leave a Comment

Elizabeth Crowley spent this week knocking on doors and shaking hands at subway stations across the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens – where she was born into an Irish Catholic family of 15 children. “I wouldn't be the person I am today if I didn’t have the love and support of my big Irish family,” says Crowley, a one-time member of the New York City … [Read more...] about Elizabeth Crowley Carries On
The Family Tradition of Public Service

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On this day in 1968, Bernadette Devlin was elected to Britain’s Parliament on the “Unity” ticket, as MP for the Mid-Ulster constituency. The election followed the death of Ulster Unionist Party Member of Parliament for Mid Ulster, George Forrest, and Devlin found she was running against Forrest’s widow on the Unionist ticket. At 21, Devlin was the youngest woman ever to be elected to Parliament. Raised Roman Catholic in Cookstown, County Tyrone, Devlin became passionately involved in politics while a student at Queen’s University Belfast. She helped to form the Irish Republican Socialist Party along with Seamus Costello in 1974.

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