Sue Myrick

Synopsis

Myrick ran for the Charlotte City Council in the 1980s after becoming angry over a property dispute. In 1987, she was elected the city's first female mayor, and she was re-elected two years later. She won a seat in 1994 in the U.S. House in the Ninth Congressional District, which covers parts of Charlotte and nearby suburbs. As freshman liaison to then-Speaker Newt Gingrich, she was a high-profile member of the Republican revolution. After being treated for breast cancer, she sponsored a law in 1999 to extend Medicaid coverage for breast and cervical cancer. She voted for the Iraq war resolution. Recently, she has proposed bills that would crackdown on illegal immigration.

Trivia

She owned an Amway distributorship.

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