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Barbara Boxer

United States senator
Also known as: Barbara Levy
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Barbara Boxer (born November 11, 1940, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.) is an American politician whose ardent support for myriad progressive causes, including environmentalism and reproductive rights, while representing California as a Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives (1983–93) and Senate (1993–2017) contributed to her reputation as one of Congress’s most stalwart liberal voices. Levy was born to a Jewish couple and raised in Brooklyn, New York. She attended Brooklyn College, where she received a...

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