Pat Schroeder

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American politician, Congresswoman from Colorado. A hard worker and unpretentious, she has written ground-breaking legislation. She first ran for Congress in 1972 while still raising two small children, remarking that, "I have a brain and a uterus and use both." A Harvard lawyer and eight-term Congresswoman, she also has a formidable gift for phrase, such as dubbing Ronald Reagan, "the Teflon president." She is an opponent of Phyllis Schlafly and a strong supporter of the ERA. Schroeder learned to fly as a kid and worked her way through school doing what her dad did, flying to crash sites to assess damage, attending the University of Colorado from 1969 to 1972. She met Jim Schroeder at Harvard and married him on 08/18/1962; they have three kids. He went into politics first. She taught school and worked as a field attorney. She announced in July 1996 that she would leave the House at the end of her term for retirement at the age of 55 after 24 years in office at $75,000 per year. Link to Wikipedia biography