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| Affiliation | Democratic |
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| Name | Victoria Schmidt |
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, Missouri , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
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July 18, 1908
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| Died | May 01, 1999
(90 years)
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| Contributor | RBH |
| Last Modifed | RBH
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| Info | Miss Schmidt taught physical education for a half-century, first at Roosevelt and Southwest high schools and other city public schools from 1929-48. She taught at Harris-Stowe from 1949-78.
In 1996 she received the school's Distinguished Alumni Award for championing the merger of the old Harris and Stowe teachers colleges, which had been racially segregated.
After an unsuccessful run for trustee of the Junior College District in 1971, she sought Missouri's congressional seat from the 3rd District in 1974, 1976 and 1978.
A lifelong Democrat and feminist, she parted company with Rep. Leonor K. Sullivan over the latter's opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment.
In 1976, she lost to a St. Louis alderman, Richard Gephardt, in the Democratic primary for Sullivan's vacated seat. Unlike her opponent, she spoke out against a constitutional amendment to overturn the 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion. She said that she was against abortion but that it was a moral issue that could not be legislated.
In 1980, she ran unsuccessfully in the Democratic primary for state representative from the city's 100th District.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - May 4, 1999 |
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