Mary Elizabeth Goodhue ('' née'' Brier; July 24, 1921 – March 24, 2004) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.

Early life

Mary was born on July 24, 1921, in

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to American parents. She was a daughter of Ernest Brier, later of Grosse Pointe, Michigan, a vice president of the Parke‐Davis Company, in 1948. The family emigrated to the

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, and settled in

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. She graduated

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from

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in 1942, and

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from the

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in 1944.

Career

She was admitted to the bar in 1945, and practiced law in

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. She was a member of the New York State Assembly from 1975 to 1978, sitting in the 181st and

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s. She was a member of the New York State Senate from 1979 to 1992, sitting in the 183rd, 184th, 185th, 186th, 187th, 188th and

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s. In 1992, she ran for re-nomination, but was defeated in the Republican primary by

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.''Upset by Pataki Leaves a Conservative Message''
by Tessa Melvin, in the ''

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'' on September 20, 1992

Personal life

In 1962, she married Francis A. Goodhue III (1916–1990), a son of

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(former president of the

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) and the Nora Forbes (née Thayer) Goodhue (a daughter of prominent ornithologist

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and direct descendant of Stephen Van Rensselaer IV). Together, they were the parents of one son: * Francis Abott Goodhue IV, who married Evelyn Treat Cutler, a daughter of Philip Cutler of Dresden Mills, Maine (the founding headmaster of the Brookwood School in

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), in 1976. She died on March 24, 2004, in Northern Westchester Hospital in Mount Kisco, New York.

References

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