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Funeral Details for Former Cleveland Area US Rep. Mary Rose Oakar Announced
Mary Rose Oakar served eight terms in Congress, championed women's rights and economic equality, and led the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee from 2003 to 2010.
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Mary Rose Oakar, the first Arab American woman in Congress, dies at 85
Former Rep. Mary Rose Oakar, the first Arab American woman in Congress and a political casualty of the 1992 House banking scandal, died on Sept. 13 in Lakewood, Ohio. She was 85. A Democrat from Cleveland’s West Side, Oakar was first elected to the House in 1976 and served eight terms, winning easily each time before losing to Republican Martin R. Hoke in 1992. That year, she faced a redrawn district and was swept into the banking scandal, havin…
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