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词条 Draft:Maria Antonietta Berriozabal
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  1. Early life and education

  2. Career

  3. References

  4. External links

Maria Antonietta Berriozabal (1941- ) activist and author, was born in Laredo, Texas, and raised in San Antonio. She was elected Councilwoman for District One of the City of San Antonio in 1981, the first Hispanic woman to hold such a position in a major Texas city. She served on the City Council for ten years before running for mayor in 1991. In a campaign that garnered national attention, Berrizozabal led a field of 11 candidates before being narrowly defeated in a run-off. [1]

Her public service includes an appointments as the U.S. representative to the Inter-American Commission for Women, an agency within the Organization for American States, and as a delegate to the United Nationals' Fourth World Conference in Bejing, China.[2]

Early life and education

Maria's grandparents moved to Laredo from Mexico in the 1910's,[3] and the family moved to San Antonio in 1942.[4] She and her siblings attended private Catholic school. After graduation from high school at age eighteen, she went to work and took college courses at night. It took her 20 years to earn a bachelors degree in political science from the University of Texas at San Antonio. [3]

Career

Maria worked with the Salvation Army for seven years, and then accepted a job with John A. Daniels, chair of the Democratic Party in Bexar County.

References

1. ^{{Cite news|url=http://iop.harvard.edu/fellows/maria-berriozabal|title=Maria Berriozabal|work=The Institute of Politics at Harvard University|access-date=2018-11-09|language=en}}
2. ^{{Cite news|url=|title=Women's advocates salute appointment of Berriozabal|last=Flores|first=Veronica|date=July 22, 1994|work=San Antonio Express-News|access-date=|page=7B}}
3. ^{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/648584387|title=Chicanas in charge : Texas women in the public arena|last=Angel.|first=Gutiérrez, José|date=2007|publisher=AltaMira Press|others=Meléndez, Michelle., Noyola, Sonia Adriana.|year=|isbn=9780759113947|location=Lanham|pages=160-162|oclc=648584387}}
4. ^{{Cite web|url=https://hope-sa.org/2017-honorees|title=HOPE: Hispanic Organization for Public Employees|last=2017 Honorees|first=|date=2017|website=Hispanic Organization For Public Employees|language=en-US|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=2018-11-09}}

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