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Shirley Borhauer
Shirley Ursala Borhauer (; October 2, 1926 – December 10, 2013) was an American politician. She served in the Arkansas House of Representatives from 2001 to 2007. Early life Borhauer was born Shirley Ursala Czosek on October 2, 1926, in Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. Her parents were Edmund Stanislaw Czosek, a machinery operator for the Felt and Tarrant Manufacturing Company, and Clara Victoria Mindikowski Czosek, a Democratic election official. She was the youngest child, with one older sister, Phillis Mildred Czosek Black. She attended local public schools and graduated from Dwight D. Eisenhower High School (Blue Island, Illinois), Blue Island High School in 1944. Political career Borhauer contested a race to replace Thomas Fitzpatrick as alderman for the 19th ward in Chicago in the 1975 election. She ran for a seat in the Arkansas House of Representatives in the 2000 general election and was elected for a seat representing district 4 at the age of 74. She sponsored a succe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arkansas House Of Representatives
The Arkansas State House of Representatives is the lower house of the Arkansas General Assembly, the state legislature of the US state of Arkansas. The House is composed of 100 members elected from an equal amount of constituencies across the state. Each district has an average population of 29,159 according to the 2010 federal census. Members are elected to two-year terms and, since the 2014 Amendment to the Arkansas Constitution, limited to sixteen years cumulative in either house. The Arkansas House of Representatives meets annually, in regular session in odd number years and for a fiscal session in even number years, at the State Capitol in Little Rock. History During the Reconstruction era that followed the American Civil War, the Federal government passed the Reconstruction Acts and African Americans were enfranchised with voting rights. African Americans were elected and served in the Arkansas House although the numbers eventually declined as the Democrats retook ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
