Ferraro

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Ferraro \Fer*ra"ro\, prop. n.
   Geraldine Anne Ferraro, a United States politician. Born in
   1935, she was a congresswoman from New York in the United
   States Congress from 1978 to 1984, and ran unsuccessfully in
   1984 a candidate for Vice President of the United States,
   with Walter Mondale as the Presidential candidate. She was
   the first woman to be nominated by a major U. S. political
   party for the office of Vice President.
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