What is Ruth Messinger?
{{Infobox officeholder | name = Ruth Messinger | image = Ruth Messinger 2012.jpg | imagesize = 175px | caption = Messinger in 2012 | office = 24th [[Borough President]] of [[Manhattan]] | term_start = January 1, 1990 | term_end = December 31, 1997 | predecessor = [[David Dinkins]] | successor = [[C. Virginia Fields]] | birth_date = {{birth-date and age|November 6, 1940}} | birth_place = [[New York City]] | party = [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] | spouse = Andrew Lachman | children = 3 | alma_mater = [[Radcliffe College]]<br/>[[University of Oklahoma]] | occupation = President/CEO, [[American Jewish World Service]] | footnotes = }} '''Ruth Wyler Messinger''' (born November 6, 1940) is an American politician and member of the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]] as well as the [[Democratic Socialists of America]]. She was the Democratic nominee for [[Mayor of New York City]] in 1997 losing to [[Rudy Giuliani]]. Messinger was the 24th [[Borough President]] of [[Manhattan]] from 1990 to 1997. In 2015 she was named as one of ''[[The Forward]]'' 50 along with Senator [[Bernie Sanders]].<ref>{{cite web|author=November 11, 2015 |url=http://forward.com/series/forward-50/2015/ |title=Forward 50 2015 – |publisher=Forward.com |date=2015-11-07 |access-date=2015-11-11}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== *[http://www.jwa.org/feminism/?id=JWA051 Jewish Women and the Feminist Revolution] from the [http://www.jwa.org Jewish Women's Archive] *[http://www.hazon.org/ Hazon website] {{DEFAULTSORT:Messinger, Ruth}} [[Category:1940 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Jewish American politicians]] [[Category:Jewish politicians]] [[Category:Manhattan borough presidents]] [[Category:Democratic Party (United States) politicians]] {{US-bio-stub}}