Patsy Ann Gephardt Kurth (February 2, 1941 – April 27, 2011) was a member of the

Florida Senate The Florida Senate is the upper house of the Florida Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Florida, the Florida House of Representatives being the lower house. Article III, Section 1 of the Constitution of Florida, adopted ...

representing the 16th district from 1990 to 1992 and the 15th district from 1992 to 2000. She was born in

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on February 2, 1941, and came to

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in 1962. In 2000, she ran for a seat in the U.S House of Representatives representing Florida's 15th congressional district but was defeated by

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. She was the cousin of

Richard Gephardt Richard Andrew Gephardt (; born January 31, 1941) is an American attorney, lobbyist, and politician who served as a United States Representative from Missouri from 1977 to 2005. A member of the Democratic Party, he was House Majority Leader from ...

. Her daughter, Dawn Ann Kurth, as a 11-year-old, was a spokesperson against false advertising directed toward children during the early 1970s. She died from Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 1986.

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