Anne Wexler
| Anne Wexler | |
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Wexler (right) with Stu Eizenstat, 1978
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| Director of the Office of Public Liaison | |
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In office September 1, 1978 – January 20, 1981 |
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| President | Jimmy Carter |
| Preceded by | Midge Costanza |
| Succeeded by | Elizabeth Dole |
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Anne Levy February 10, 1930 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Died | August 7, 2009 (aged 79) Washington, D.C., U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Joseph Duffey (1974–2009) |
| Children | 4 |
| Alma mater | Skidmore College |
| Religion | Judaism |
Anne Levy Wexler (February 10, 1930 – August 7, 2009) was an American influential Democratic political consultant, public policy advisor and later, the first woman to head a leading lobbying firm in Washington.
She was born as Anne Levy on February 10, 1930, in Manhattan, the daughter of Leon R. Levy, a prominent architect who designed the New York Coliseum. Her first involvement in politics was ringing doorbells for Harry S. Truman as a history major at Skidmore College.
She married ophthalmologist Richard Wexler two weeks after her 1951 graduation. As a housewife in Westport, Connecticut, she described herself as having "all the Jewish princess stuff — a lovely home, a full-time maid, lots of vacations" before she started becoming involved in politics.
In the 60s, Wexler began her political career by serving on the Westport Zoning Board of Appeals and by helping John Fitzgerald organize a Congressional campaign against the pro-Vietnam war Democrat incumbent Donald J. Irwin. She organized the Connecticut effort for Eugene McCarthy's 1968 presidential campaign, and served on the rules committee at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, where she was the primary author of the committee's minority report, whose recommendations on reforms in choosing delegates were later accepted.
She managed the 1970 United States Senate campaign in Connecticut for Democrat Joseph Duffey, a Democrat who came in second to Republican Lowell P. Weicker, Jr., with incumbent Thomas J. Dodd coming in third.Bill and Hillary Clinton, then students at Yale Law School, were recruited among the campaign's volunteer workers. (Mrs. Clinton, while running for President in 2008, credited Wexler with providing her first political job.)
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