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Anne Martindell, former [NJ] State Senator and Ambassador, dies
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| Last Edited | RMF Jun 12, 2008 10:25pm |
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| News Date | Thursday, June 12, 2008 12:40:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Former State Sen. Anne Clark Martindell, a Democrat who won an upset victory in a solidly Republican legislative district in 1973 and went on to become the United States Ambassador to New Zealand, passed away on Wednesday. She was 93.
Martindell became involved in politics in 1968 when her brother, Blair Clark, was the campaign manager for Eugene McCarthy’s campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination. She ran for State Senator in a Hunterdon County-based district that included Princeton, Pennington and the Hopewells, and narrowly defeated incumbent Bill Schluter in 1973, when Watergate caused Republicans to lose ten State Senate seats.
She left the Senate in 1977 when President Jimmy Carter appointed her to serve as an Ambassador. Her Senate seat was won by Republican Walter Foran. |
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