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Emily <emily@nospam.com> said something like:
:> It is in fact named 'Gladys Noon Spellman Parkway'. Gladys Noon
:> Spellman was a representative to congress from a district in Prince
:> Georges County in the 1970s. She died still holding her seat. I don't
:> recall of what.
:> 
: She suffered a stroke while judging a Halloween costume contest in
: Laurel (same shopping complex where Wallace was shot, byt the way) -
: and remained in a coma for several years before she died.

Not that it matters, but according to the _Post_ it was a heart attack
"When a sever heart attack sent Gladys Noon Spellman into a coma on Oct.
31, 1980, her many admirers in Prince George's County, in Congress and
throughout the Washington region found it difficult to believe that this
most exceptionally popular politician wouldn't find a way to battle back
and resume her remarkable 19-year story of success in politics..."
-6/21/88, page A18.

An interesting note is that she was re-elected AFTER slipping into the
coma. She was removed from office by Congress in 2/81, which led to about
25 people (including her husband) clammoring to fill her seat. The fellow
who wound up winning it, however, was none other than longtime Maryland
representative Steny Hoyer, who until then was best known for his
unsuccessul bid for Lt. Governor in 1978.

I had no idea that the modest little Laurel Shopping Center was the
same one that Arthur Bremmer made famous a decade earlier -- now THAT'S
trivia! :)


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