What an interesting life this woman must have led

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090328/wl_nm/us_guyana_jagan

Former Guyana President Janet Jagan dies at 88

Sat Mar 28, 7:56 pm ET

GEORGETOWN (Reuters) – Former Guyana President Janet Jagan, a major political force in this small South American nation, died on Saturday at age 88, officials said.

She became Guyana's first white and first female president in 1997 after the death of her husband, former President Cheddi Jagan. snip

"Her life story and her work will inspire generations of Guyanese for a long time," Ramsammy said.

Born Janet Rosenberg in Chicago in 1920, she married Jagan and moved to Guyana in 1943. The former journalist was an advocate for the rights of women and workers throughout the Caribbean and in Guyana, an ex-British colony.

She was sworn in as prime minister in March 1997 after her husband died. Later that year she won the presidential election in a country long divided between Guyanese of ethnic African and Indian descent. snip

"As a principal figure in Guyana's successful struggle for independence, she embodied the fight for the right of people to choose their own destiny," the U.S. Embassy in Guyana said in a statement.

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1. I bet. Thanks for snagging this report. n/t

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2. Chicago's 4th President (of 5)

Grant was stationed in Chicago when the Civil War broke out.

Ronald Reagan lived in Chicago briefly as an infant.

Valdus Adamkus, lived in Chicago 47 years before going back to Lithuania to become president.

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3. Your info about Grant is wrong...

...Grant wasn't "stationed" any where when the civil war broke out, he had resigned from the army in 1854. In fact in 1861 when the war broke out he was living in Galena, Illinois, working in his fathers leathergoods store.

There is no evidence that Grant ever lived in Chicago, so you can take one off Chicagos list of presidents.