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VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT: LUCY CALAUTTIadmin2022-11-29T08:21:30-05:00

THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT

Lucy Calautti

“I don’t believe in giving up, and I believe in teaching other women to be strong and to be brave.”

Former Director of Government Relations for Major League Baseball. Served as a Chief of Staff to Congressman Byron Dorgan (D-ND) in the U.S. House of Representatives, served as Chief of Staff to Senator Dorgan in the U.S. Senate, and worked with the Democratic Leadership in the Senate. A United States Navy Veteran, who served as an aerial photographer during the Vietnam War era. In 1986, Lucy ran the successful come from behind U.S. Senate campaign of Kent Conrad (D-ND), whom she married in 1987. Past president of the historic National Woman’s Party. 

Interviewed by Judy Waxman, December 2021

Photo. Lucy Calautti and her husband, retired U.S. Senator, Kent Conrad (D-North Dakota), 2017.

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More About Lucy:

  • Select interviews, articles, speeches and honors
    • Lucy Calautti talks about the first woman voter in her family, August, 2020
    • “Politics, Baseball and Women’s Issues Have Fueled Lucy Calautti’s Career,” by David Hackett October 2017
    • Lucy Calautti inducted into the Greater Washington Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, 2011
    • “Women Warriors,” Washington Life Magazine, June, 2011
    • American Italian Food Coalition Chairwoman, Lucy Calautti
    • “Navy Photographer Lands in North Dakota,” by Amy Sisk, Bismarck Tribune
    • On C-SPAN, March, 2003
    • “For the Love of the Game,” North Dakota State University Magazine, Fall, 2002

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