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Millicent Fenwick
Millicent Vernon Hammond Fenwick, who died in 1992 at the age
of 82, was a fashion editor, politician, and diplomat raised in Ber-
nardsvile, NJ. A four-term Republican member of the United States
House of Representatives for New Jersey, she entered politics at the
age of 64. She was considered a moderate and progressive within
her party and was strongly in favor of civil rights and the women’s
movement. After leaving the House of Representatives following
the 1982 election, Fenwick was appointed by President Reagan as
the U.S. Ambassador to the Food and Agriculture Organization of
the United Nations in Rome, Italy. She is thought to be the inspira-
tion behind Lacey Davenport, a character in the comic Doonesbury.
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