US Congresswoman. Represented New Jersey's 5th District in the House of Representatives, serving from 1975 to 1983. After working as an editor for Vogue magazine in the 1940s, she became involved in local New Jersey politics in the late 1950s. After losing in her 1982 bid for a Senate seat, she became ambassador to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations from 1983 to 1987. She was widely recognizable due to her habit of smoking a pipe, even during House hearings, and is believed to have been the model for the character Lacey Davenport in the "Doonesbury" daily comic strip by Garry Trudeau.
US Congresswoman. Represented New Jersey's 5th District in the House of Representatives, serving from 1975 to 1983. After working as an editor for Vogue magazine in the 1940s, she became involved in local New Jersey politics in the late 1950s. After losing in her 1982 bid for a Senate seat, she became ambassador to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations from 1983 to 1987. She was widely recognizable due to her habit of smoking a pipe, even during House hearings, and is believed to have been the model for the character Lacey Davenport in the "Doonesbury" daily comic strip by Garry Trudeau.
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