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Nancy Astor

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Profession
Politician
Died
May 2, 1964
Zodiac
Taurus
Born in
Virginia
About
Famous as the first female member of the British Parliament, the American-born Astor represented England's Plymouth Sutton constituency from 1919 until 1945. She was a member of the Conservative Party.
Family
One of nearly a dozen children born to Nancy Keene and railroad executive Chiswell Dabney Langhorne, she spent her youth in Danville and Albermarle County, Virginia. Following an early, unhappy marriage to Boston socialite Robert Gould Shaw II, she married Waldorf Astor, with whom she subsequently raised four sons and one daughter (her first child, a son, was born during her marriage to Shaw).

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