First Female Vice Presidential Candidate Geraldine Ferraro Dead At 75

Former Congresswoman Geraldine Ferraro has passed away, various news sources are reporting. In a public statement, her family announced she passed surrounded by family due to complications with cancer. Ferraro made history in 1984 when she became the first female candidate on a national ticket, running on the Democratic ticket as Walter Mondale‘s Vice Presidential running mate. She was 75.

NBC is reporting Ferraro passed surrounded by her family at Massachusetts General Hospital earlier today. Ferraro had been struggling with multiple myeloma, a form of blood cancer, for more than a decade. Her family released the following statement:

Geraldine Anne Ferraro Zaccaro was widely known as a leader, a fighter for justice, and a tireless advocate for those without a voice. To us, she was a wife, mother, grandmother and aunt, a woman devoted to and deeply loved by her family. Her courage and generosity of spirit throughout her life waging battles big and small, public and personal, will never be forgotten and will be sorely missed.

Below is one of Ferraro’s last television appearances on Fox News, alongside the only other woman to run for on a major ticket as a Vice Presidential candidate, Sarah Palin:

Sarah Palin Calls Into Fox News To Comment On Geraldine Ferraro’s Death:

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