On April 8, 2008, she won the special election for the vacated United States House of Representatives seat of late Congressman Tom Lantos. Caltrain Baby Bullet MP36PH-3C 925 is named in her honor. Speier was born in 1950 in San Francisco, and grew up in an apolitical family, the daughter of Nancy (n*e Kanchelian) and Manfred ``Fred'' Speier. Her mother (she was a survivor of Armenian Genocide) was of Armenian descent, while her father was an immigrant from Germany.
On April 8, 2008, she won the special election for the vacated United States House of Representatives seat of late Congressman Tom Lantos.
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win
won
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special
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election
election
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States
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House
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seat
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late
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Congressman
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Tom
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Caltrain Baby Bullet MP36PH-3C 925 is named in her honor.
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Speier was born in 1950 in San Francisco, and grew up in an apolitical family, the daughter of Nancy (n*e Kanchelian) and Manfred ``Fred'' Speier.
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Speier
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Fred''
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Speier
Speier
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Her mother (she was a survivor of Armenian Genocide) was of Armenian descent, while her father was an immigrant from Germany.
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mother
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she
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survivor
survivor
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Armenian
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Genocide
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her
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father
father
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Germany
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