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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New JerseyMillicent Hammond FENWICK
(1910-1992)
FENWICK, Millicent
Hammond, a Representative from New Jersey; born in New York
City, February 25, 1910; attended Foxcroft School, Middleburg, Va.,
1923-1925; attended Columbia University and New School for Social
Research in New York City, 1933, 1942; held position of associate
editor in New York publications firm, 1938-1952; member, board of
education, Bernardsville (N.J.), 1938-1947, and Borough Council,
1958-1964; member, New Jersey Committee of the U.S. Commission on
Civil Rights, 1958-1974; member, New Jersey general assembly,
1970-1973; served as director of New Jersey Consumer Affairs,
1973-1974; elected as a Republican to the Ninety-fourth and to the
three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1975-January 3, 1983); was
not a candidate for reelection in 1982 to the Ninety-eighth
Congress, but was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the
United States Senate; United States representative, with rank of
ambassador, to the United Nations Agencies for Food and
Agriculture, June 13, 1983, to March 1987; was a resident of
Bernardsville, N.J., until her death there on September 16,
1992.
Bibliography
Fenwick, Millicent. Speaking Up. Foreword by Norman Cousins.
New York: Harper and Row, 1982; Schapiro, Amy. Millicent
Fenwick: Her Way. New Brunswick, N. J.: Rutgers University
Press, 2003.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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