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Nancy Elaine Achin Sullivan (January 20, 1959 – February 25, 2022) was an American
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politician from
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. She represented the 1st Middlesex district in the
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from 1991 to 1993 and was a
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. She retired after a single term because she was undergoing chemotherapy to treat breast cancer. Sullivan was born in
Lowell, Massachusetts Lowell () is a city in Massachusetts, in the United States. Alongside Cambridge, It is one of two traditional seats of Middlesex County. With an estimated population of 115,554 in 2020, it was the fifth most populous city in Massachusetts as of ...
, on January 20, 1959. A four-time cancer survivor, she served as executive director of the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine from 1999 until 2008. Sullivan went to the Academy of Notre Dame in Lowell, Massachusetts and to Radcliffe College. She died in
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, on February 25, 2022, at the age of 63.


See also

* 1991-1992 Massachusetts legislature


References

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