Carol Schwartz
| Carol Schwartz | |
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| At-Large Member of the Council of the District of Columbia | |
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In office 1997–2009 |
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| Preceded by | William Lightfoot |
| Succeeded by | Michael A. Brown |
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In office 1985–1989 |
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| Preceded by | Jerry A. Moore Jr. |
| Succeeded by | William Lightfoot |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
January 20, 1944 Greenville, Mississippi, U.S. |
| Political party |
Republican (Before 2014) Independent (2014–present) |
| Alma mater | University of Texas, Austin |
Carol Schwartz (born January 20, 1944 in Greenville, Mississippi) is a politician from Washington, D.C., who served as a Republican at-large member on the Council of the District of Columbia from 1985 to 1989 and again from 1997 to 2009. She was also a four-time candidate for mayor, and is the only Republican nominee since the restoration of home rule to garner more than 30 percent of the vote. She announced her fifth campaign for Mayor of the District of Columbia on June 9, 2014 finishing behind Muriel Bowser and David Catania. In 2015, she was appointed to the D.C. Board of Ethics and Government Accountability by Mayor Muriel Bowser.
After being born in Greenville, Mississippi, her family lived for brief periods in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, before settling down in Midland, Texas, where she spent nearly all of her childhood. Growing up in Midland, Schwartz experienced anti-Semitism as a child, where she was one of very few Jewish people in the city. Schwartz graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 1965 with a degree in elementary and special education. After graduation, she worked as a special education teacher in Austin, but she quit and moved to the District in 1966 after visiting the city.
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