Many people don't know that the Congresswoman was born in Queens, NY, and graduated from Yale University with honors in the first graduating class including females.
SNEAK PEEK: The countdown is ON for Great Wolf Lodge Texas Gulf Coast’s grand opening | Get a glimpse inside the processdeath over the weekend came as a shock to many, just a few months after she announced her recent pancreatic cancer diagnosis.Jackson Lee had undoubtedly worked hard in American politics for the past four decades, dedicating most of her life to government work.
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-TX., right, and Rep. Jim Moran, D-Va., center, line up before being arrested by a member of the Uniform Division of the Secret Services, left, during a demonstration outside the Sudanese Embassy , Friday, April 28, 2006 in Washington. Five Congress members were willingly arrested and led away from the Sudanese Embassy in plastic handcuffs Friday in protest of the Sudanese government's role in atrocities in the Darfur region.
Her recent victory came just months after losing a bid to become Houston’s mayor against Kathy Whitmire’s former brother-in-law-,At the time she ran, SJL said that she had sought to be the first Black female mayor of the nation’s fourth-largest city.
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