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Marcia Carolyn Kaptur (born June 17, 1946) is a Polish-American politician of the Democratic Party, who is a U.S. Representative for the ninth congressional district of Ohio.

Kaptur was born in Toledo, Ohio and graduated from St. Ursula Academy in Toledo in 1964. She received a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Wisconsin (Madison, Wisconsin) in 1968 and a master of arts degree from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) in 1974. She attended the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom in 1974 and did post-graduate study in urban planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) in 1981.

Kaptur served on the Toledo-Lucas County Plan Commissions from 1969 to 1975 and was director of planning for the National Center for Urban Ethnic Affairs from 1975 to 1977.

From 1977 to 1979, Kaptur served in the Carter administration as a domestic policy advisor.

Kaptur was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1982 and began serving in 1983 (98th Congress).

It was one of her constituents, Roger Durbin, who first suggested in 1987 the creation of a World War II memorial in Washington, D.C.. She introduced legislation to establish a memorial which was defeated in Congress. Later, Senator Bob Dole spearheaded a successful effort, and the memorial opened in May 2004.

Kaptur represented Ohio as a delegate to the 2000 Democratic National Convention and 2004 Democratic National Convention.

Kaptur also has repeatedly voiced her opposition to the nuclear power industry and the Davis-Besse nuclear power plant, which lies within her district, and which has been the source of two of the top five most dangerous nuclear incidents in the United States since 1979.

Some extra information while talking to her

Recently our school, Toledo Early College High School had just had her come and speak. This was on October, 6, 2006 @ 1pm. She was explaining about her job and some of her issues she is working on. She has been thinking of using wind power to power in Ohio section 9. It will be more beneificial since this energy is renewable. Also she is bring in federal money for solar panels. since Davis-Besse is one of the top unsafe powerplant ina all of America, she is doing this. One more of the things she is working on is connecting the University of Toledo and the Medical University of Ohio campuses together. May be with a canal. Mainly her work is on environmental issues like clean water espaecially with cleaning Lake Erie.

Marcy is against smoking. "Stop snoking---don't start."

In her earilier years she had discrimination against her because she was a woman. She got rejected from piloting school, Notre Dame college, and the FBI.

She does not spend money on her campaign.

Also she was the first in her family to graduate high school. Also college.

Her motto..."Every time a door closes, another door opens."

See also

• Election Results, U.S. Representative from Ohio, 9th District
• List of United States Representatives from Ohio

External links

• Official site
• Voting record maintained by the Washington Post

• 1946 births
• Living people
• Current members of the United States House of Representatives
• Members of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio
• People from Toledo, Ohio
• Polish-American politicians
• Pro-choice politicians
• Roman Catholic politicians
• Women members of the United States House of Representatives