Happy Fernandez (1939 – January 19, 2013) was an American politician. Fernandez was a former

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professor. She joined the city council of Philadelphia in 1992 but left on September 28, 1998 to run for mayor. In 1999, she unsuccessfully ran for

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, becoming the city's first female mayoral candidate. She was born in 1939 in

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; her birth name was Gladys Vivian Craven. Fernandez was involved in the

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's new expansion and later went on to run the college as president until she retired in 2012.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Fernandez, Happy 1939 births 2013 deaths Politicians from Omaha, Nebraska Philadelphia City Council members Temple University faculty Moore College of Art and Design faculty Women city councillors in Pennsylvania American women academics 21st-century American women