Claudine Schneider (née Cmarada; born March 25, 1947) is an American economist and former politician who served as a

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U.S. representative from

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. She was the first, and to date only, woman elected to Congress from Rhode Island. She is the founder of Republicans for Integrity, which describes itself as a network of "Republican former Members of Congress who feel compelled to remind Republican voters about the fundamentals of he Republicanparty and to provide the facts about incumbents' voting records."

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Schneider was born Claudine Cmarada in Clairton, Pennsylvania. On her father's side, she is of Slovak descent. Schneider attended parochial schools. She studied at the

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, and Rosemont College (Pennsylvania). She obtained a B.A. degree from

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(Vermont) in 1969. She also attended the

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Program in Community Planning. She was the founder of the Rhode Island Committee on Energy in 1973, and was appointed executive director of the

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in 1974. She became Federal coordinator of Rhode Island Coastal Zone Management Program in 1978. She worked as a producer and host of a public affairs television program in

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from 1978 to 1979. Schneider was elected as a Republican to the

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and was re-elected to the four succeeding Congresses, serving from January 3, 1981, to January 3, 1991 for

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. She did not stand for re-election in

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to the 102nd Congress but was an unsuccessful nominee for the

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in challenging incumbent

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. In 1985, she was interviewed by

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for his book, "Midterm Report: The Class of '65: Chronicles Of An American Generation" (1986). It was later published as "Class Reunion '65, Tales of an American Generation," written from the perspective of two decades post-high school graduation. Twenty-eight contemporary graduates were interviewed, Wallachinsky noting the profound impact of the

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on their lives.Midterm Report, the Class of ’65: CHRONICLE OF AN AMERICAN GENERATION by David Wallechinsky
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'', Charles Trueheart, September 28, 1986. Retrieved February 8, 2021. After leaving Congress, she served as a member of the faculty of the John F. Kennedy School of Government of

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. She is a resident of

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, where she works as an independent consultant, specializing in environmental matters and ecological economics.

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