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Show U 6A The Salt Lake Tribune, Sunday, June 18, 192 These 7 Misters Have Missus in Congress $ NOTE Look of beHIf'd By Margaret Schert Associated Press Writer - W A S H I N C-- T 0 N Dr. John Francis Mink was sitting Taiwan a cafe leafing in through the China Post when an interesting-lookinhe spotted g editorial "I stalled skimming it and two names jumped cut at I So recalled. to out find Washington phoned what was going on. The names were those of his wife, Rep. Patsy Mink, and Dr. Edgar Berman, a member of the Democratic National Committees policy council. Mrs. Mink had demanded that Berman resign from the committee after he contended that women were unsuited for leadership positions because the menstrual cycle and menopause made them less stable emotionally than men. Berman eventually resigned. The gist of the editoi lal, said Mink, was that no Chinese man would ever get into such a situation. Mink is in c situation many not men might American want to get into. He is one of seven men whose wives are members of Congress. Little in Common he me, ? I I I I 9 ? I I I ; I Dr. Thomas A. Grasso f f r The seven have little else in common. They include a geologist, a high school principal, a lawyer, an investment counselor, a stockbroker, an inves- If w. - & tigator and a retired logger. Mink is the geologist. Ever since Patsy and I weve have been together, been together in politics, said Mink, who is his wifes campaign manager. We matured together in politics." Mink is a "haole the Hawaiian word for Caucasian from Jim Thorpe, Pa., who t "Te v I t met his Hawaiian-bor- Japanese ancestry at the University of Chicago. "Together we made a commitment to set .ice, he said. public , "We got involved at the precinct level right after graduation." It was Patsy who ran for because shes public office more willing to undergo the stresses and strains than I am. Mink, who has a Ph.D. and specializes in hydrology, quit his job with the Honolulu Board of Water Supply when his wife was elected to Congress in 1964. a partner of Earth SciInc., a Washington-basefirm, Mink travels the water re woild studying As ences, B1 S, i W9MMWV fi d sources. "We lead one of the quietest lives of any couple in Washington, said Mink. "We dont get involved in the social world unless it relates to the State of Hawaii "Politics and my own work have been so exciting weve never felt the need to find something else. We just like to take long drives or go oft sJLMSaagfegs&IK weekends together." for Dr. John Francis Mink Live Alone The Minks live in a m southwest Washington and also have a home in H a w a i i. Their daughter, 19, attends the Gwendolyn, University of Chicago. Unlike Mink, Dr. Tnomas A. Girvso, principal of he Sunset Rulge Middle School m East Hartford, Conn., and husband of Rep. Ella Grasso, doesn t live m the capital, and seldom visits it. "I cant enjoy the luxury of town-hous- s C v S v '' N . ss VV vf ' V ' X JVS v K s N. &zs 'A : ri ;i T Xv , ' li , r N t I t f r V V- - A 4V D-- leave from his job as an in estimator for the City Bureau of Medical Services in Ne i York to help his wife, Rep Shirley Chisholm, in her tc.m for the Democratic paign She piesidential nomination calls him "one of my rloxec advisers f' 1 A; -- Liked to Argue husband of Griffiths, said he was attract- if the outside and soft on the inside After graduating from Columbia Law School, Mrs. Abzug went to Mississippi in 1960 to defend a black man subsequently convicted of raping a white woman. Several months pregnant at the time, she was threatened with lynching but refused to leave. Shes got a lot of guts, that woman, more guts than the whole damn Army, said her - Hicks Griffiths, Rep. Martha 'JJ' i-- ed to his future wife when both were attending the University of Missouri because he liked to argue with her. "I think we got married so we could continue to argue politics. he said. The newlyweds entered UniLaw versity of Michigan but when School together, g they found themselves the class by arguing , they opinions, conflicting decided to take their courses separately. After graduation they formed a law partnership with G. Mennen "Soapy Williams, and theyve been a" team ever since. Griffiths became state chairman of the Democratic party, building an organization that made Williams governor. He persuaded his wife to run for the state legislature, where she served two terms, and in 1954 convinced her to run for Congress. "I always enjoyed the organization side of politics, said Griffiths, who once wrote a pamphlet entitled How to Be a Precinct Worker. "Martha has the limelight and I love it, he said. "When Martha decided to run for Congress, I put all mv political moxie into managing the , Nv v A v husband. Conrad Chisholm The have two Abzugs daughters, both in college. Conrad Chisholm has taken e how to cel things done. The Griffith have no children. She snends Monday throuch Thursday in Washington, flies to Michigan Friday and spends Saturday in her office meeting with constituents. He nns the law office in Detroit. Sundays, the Griffiths spend on their farm in Macomb County, Hi John Heckler, husband of Ren. Margaret Heckler, , owns an investment counselling business in Boston. He also is his w ife's campaign manager. j thing," he sayd havent got her aggressiveness and talents My life is devotee to her " Retired Logger Henry A. Hansen, the hu of Rep. Butin Hansen, , is a retired logger who plays no part in his wife's public life. "Her philosophy over 3 years as an officeholder has been that she doesn't in 1939 and was elected to Congress in I960. The Hansens have a son David, 25, who is married Of the other congressional women, Sen Margaret Chase and Reps Louise Day Hicks, Leonore Sullivan, Elizabeth Andrews, and Florence Dwyer, are widows. Rep. 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One import reoson is thpl we use food tc fill emotional need, rather than ust THURSDAY, ! do my AND WED. Said Mrs Griffiths: "Soapy and I were the hapny extroverts and ran around shakine hands. But my husband knew XJ, $ in issues "She does her thing, and TODAY SUN. campaign." Weight? u married at Columbia University and he was a private investigate! "Perhaps the only major den sion of his life in which Cnn rad submitted to mv insts. fence, " said Mrs Chisholm was when shp persuaded hmi tn change his job, which sue considered dangerous. Chisholm has said he and his wife seldom discus "Bella comes on strong, but not domineering Shes very generous and very sensitive, he has said. "The best I can describe is, shes hard on I1, Chisholms The 1949 when she was a student shes N,on j Hicks Griffiths V V 'vX, Vi per.od on the psychology al solutions of weight reduction. hugd- A Wellesley home, have three children Belinda, 15, Alison, 13, and John Jr., 12 Martin Abzug, stockbroker, novelist and husband of Rep. Y , said polBella Abzug, itics leaves him cold. When his wife decided to run for Congress, "I thought it would he said bp a wasted effort. When his wife, who comes home on weekends, tries to talk to him about issues. 1 go to bed. The Ahzugs met when he was going into the Army and shp was a college girl on vacation in Florida, 1 picked her up on a bus after we had both been to a Yehudi Menuhin concert," he said After the war, Abzug became a garment cutter, like his immigrant father, then a salesman. In 1947 he wrote a novel called "Seventh Avenue and, in 1950, a war Story novel entitled Spearhead." to selling He later turned stocks. Comes on Strong y campaigning, I drive her around and do errands " We have a simpatico," he said. We have a mutual admiration society, she said. $ 5 their time between a suburban Virginia hou c and their y ca- began in 1953 when she was elected to the State House of Representatives. She was Connecticut secretary of state for 12 years and cochairman of the Resolutions Committee at the 1964 and 1968 Democratic National Conventions. "I realized when I married her that she was an unusual woman, Grasso said. I always knew shed do something extroardinary. But I didn't dream then that it would be politics. However, he added, "I'm very cooperative. When she's ' s fashionable the Wellesley, Boston suburb where they live, and when she was elected to the Executive Council that advises the governor. The Hecklers, who divide I reer I ryC representative meeting I have to work To enjoy politics, one has to have an aptitude for and enjov meeting people Its her whole life His wife spends four days a week in Washington and three days with her family in Windsor Locks, Conn "It isnt a hardship," said her husband "Im used to it after 20 Why fV. in enter-tamin- wife of n politics," he said jokingly. years. Mrs. Grassos political his wife won a post as town She was attending Albertus Magnus College in New Haven, Conn , when she began dating Heckler. They were married after college, and Mrs. Heckler went to Boston College Law School, where she was graduin the class. ated second Heckler was at the helm when EDITOR somt tht congressional women and Some stay home end mind the their husbands you II find e men hearth, some menage the missus' campaign, and one. at least, at the mention of politics turns over end goes to sleep V t . 9 1 J cvFAvn n 1 1 H- M f - so'cction No sampig J obligation. |