Barbara Boxer

Barbara Levy Boxer (born November 11, 1940 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American politician and the current junior U.S. Senator from the State of California.

Early Life and Family

Barbara Levy was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, attended public schools, and graduated from Wingate High School in 1958. Levy next graduated from Brooklyn College in 1962 with a degree in Economics. That same year she married Stewart Boxer.

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Brooklyn, New York - 1958 - Brooklyn College - 1962 - Economics

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Barbara Boxer then worked as a stockbroker for the next three years, while her husband went through law school. After that, the couple moved to Greenbrae, Marin County, California, and had two children, Doug and Nicole. During the 1970s Boxer worked as a journalist for the Pacific Sun, and as a congressional aide. In 1976 Barbara Boxer was elected to the Marin County Board of Supervisors, where she served for six years, and for a part of the time, as the first woman president of the board.

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Stockbroker - Law school - Marin County, California - 1970s - Journalist - 1976

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Years later, their daughter, Nicole Boxer, married Tony Rodham, brother of then First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, in a ceremony at the White House in 1994. The couple had one son, Zachary, and they divorced in 2000.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton - White House - 1994 - 2000

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Boxer's first novel, to be published by San Francisco-based publishing company Chronicle Books in November 2005, is called "A Time to Run". http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/09/19/state/n143804D93.DTL

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Her religion is Judaism.

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