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St. Paul's colorful -- and longtime -- political candidate Maryjane Reagan dies at 87
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| Last Edited | RBH Jan 07, 2009 01:37pm |
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| News Date | Tuesday, January 6, 2009 07:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Those who followed St. Paul politics in the 1970s, '80s and '90s will surely recall Mary Jane Rachner, who officially changed her name in 1994 to Maryjane Reagan.
She was a perennial candidate for office who often voiced controversial opinions on women's equality, gay rights — and mathematics teaching. She died last month at age 87, and was remembered with a death notice last weekend in the Pioneer Press.
After running for virtually every office in sight — governor, Congress, Legislature, school board, Minnesota secretary of state, even for president on the 1988 New Hampshire primary ballot — she was finally elected to the Ramsey County Soil and Water Conservation Board in 1996. She was re-elected twice, most recently in 2006. |
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