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.
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