Nita M Lowey

Nita M. Lowey served in the United States House of Representatives from 1989-2021.

Lowey was born July 5, 1937, in the Bronx, in New York, New York. She completed her bachelor's degree from Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts.

Prior to serving in Congress, Lowey served as the assistant secretary of state of the state of New York. She is the first woman and first New Yorker to chair the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (2001 to 2003).

For more information on Lowey's policy subject areas, committee appointments and sponsored/co-sponsored legislation during her time in the U.S. House of Representatives, please visit her profile on https://www.congress.gov.

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Ballotpedia (n.d.). Nita Lowey. Retrieved on November 21 2022, from https://ballotpedia.org/Nita_Lowey