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What was Geraldine Ferraro’s cause of death?
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Who was Geraldine Ferraro?
The hopeful was born in Newburgh, New York, in 1935, the daughter of Italian immigrants.
After graduating as a teacher, then a lawyer, and working as a prosecutor, she entered politics in 1978.
Ms Ferraro was elected to Congress three times, before being put forward as the Democrat's Vice President alongside in the 1984 election campaign.
She said she was "flabbergasted and flattered" when told by an influential group of Democratic women that they felt she was the politician who had most voter appeal to help the party
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asked her to be her running mate, making her the first ever US female Vice President nominee, 24 years before and .
On the night she accepted the Democrat Party's nomination, she told supporters: “I stand before you to proclaim tonight, America is the land where dreams can come true for all of us.”
Such was her popularity she received some 50,000 letters and gifts by election day.
But on voting day, Mr Mondale - who died aged 93 on April 19, 2021 - won only his home state of of as well as , securing just 13 electoral votes to President Ronald Reagan's record-breaking 525.
What was Geraldine Ferraro's cause of death?
Ms Ferraro died, aged 75, in 2014.
She had been diagnosed with multiple myeloma, an incurable form of blood in 1998.
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Ms Ferraro only made her illness public in 2001, telling NBC’s Today show that the cancer was in remission.
After the cancer recurred, she again went into remission following therapy with a new drug.
She lived for another 12 years, despite being told she had three to five years left to live.
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