Audrey Hochberg (June 26, 1933 – June 8, 2005) was an American politician from

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Life

She was born Audrey Elaine Golden on June 26, 1933, in Stamford, Fairfield County, Connecticut, the daughter of Abraham H. Golden and Fannie (Dodek) Golden. She graduated

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in economics from

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in 1955. Then she worked as a

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. She married Herbert L. Hochberg, and they had three daughters. They lived in Scarsdale, Westchester County, New York. She became active in the anti-war movement triggered by the

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, and entered politics as a

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. She was a member of the Westchester County Legislature from 1972 to 1992; and a member of the

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from 1993 to 2000, sitting in the 190th, 191st, 192nd and 193rd New York State Legislatures. In March 2000, she announced that she would not seek re-election later that year. She died on June 8, 2005, in

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, of

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.''Audrey Hochberg, Assemblywoman and Democrat, Dies at 71''
by Margalit Fox, in ''The New York Times'' on June 9, 2005

References

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