Stephanie Tubbs Jones – Baby Boomer with a Flair
When I read of the death of Stephanie Tubbs Jones, and the unusual circumstances (there was clearly a mix-up in the news reports), all I could think of was the quote from Mark Twain, “rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated.”
Since I was born in Ohio and spent my early adult years in Cleveland, I remembered Tubbs Jones, who was Cuyahoga county prosecutor in the early 1990s. Born in 1959, she was elected to Congress in 1998 and was serving her fourth term when she was felled by an aneurysm yesterday (August 20, 2008).
Tubbs Jones made history as the …read more