Reminiscences of Constance Cook : oral history, 1976.

Biographical Note

State Assemblywoman.

Scope and Contents

Education; Cornell Law School; work with Shearman & Sterling, Wall Street, 1943-1949; on Governor Dewey's legal staff, 1949-1951; private practice in Ithaca, 1952: government consulting work, assistant to Assemblyman Ashberry; New York State legislative career, 1962-1974: activities on Health and Education Committees, work on 1970 abortion reform bill and coalition against repeal.

Subjects

• Abortion.
• Cook, Constance, 1919-
• Interviews.
• Law.
• Lawyers--Interviews.
• Legislators--New York (State)--Interviews.
• New York (State)--Politics and government--1951-
• New York (State). Legislature. Assembly.
• Oral histories.
• Shearman & Sterling (New York, N.Y.)
• Women--Political activity--Interviews.
• Women lawyers--Interviews.

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