Former Rep. Mary Rose Oakar, the first Arab American woman in Congress and a political casualty of the 1992 House banking scandal, died on Sept. 13 in Lakewood, Ohio. She was 85. A Democrat from ...
In her 16 years on Capitol Hill, she emerged as a champion of women’s rights, especially equal pay for comparable work. By Trip Gabriel Mary Rose Oakar, who in 1977 became the first Arab American ...
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