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Born Geraldine Anne Ferraro on August 26, 1935 in Newburgh, New York, Geraldine Ferraro has an estimated net worth of $4 million. The savvy New York Democrat is also an attorney and a member of the House of Representatives. She has been embraced as a symbol of women's equality in 1984 when she became the first woman nominated for vice president by a major American political party.
Growing up, Ferraro was a boarder at the Mount Saint May while she also briefly attended a parochial school in the South Bronx. She later went to Marymount Manhattan College with a scholarship where she earned her Bachelor of Arts in English in 1956. During her senior year, she met and dated John Zaccaro of of Forest Hills, Queens, who had graduated from Iona College with a commission in the U.S. Marine Corps. She then worked as an elementary school teacher before decided to attend law school where she Juris Doctor degree with honors from Fordham University School of Law in 1960.
Earnings & Financial Data
|
Date |
Category |
Description |
Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
|
1984 |
Royalties |
Amount she earned from author's fees |
$325,000 |
|
1984 |
Sponsorship |
Amount she received from a Diet Pepsi television commercial |
$350,000 |
|
1984 |
Performance Fee |
Amount she received from her speeches |
$333,012 |
|
1984 |
Earnings |
Amount she received from other earnings |
$608,000 |
|
1984 |
Salary |
Amount she received from the House of Representatives after her term ended |
$6,467 |
|
1984 |
Salary |
Amount she reveived from CBS |
$235,000 |
|
1984 |
Royalties |
Amount she earned after pubblishing Ferraro: My Story, an account of the campaign with some of her life leading up to it |
$1,000,000 |
|
1984 |
Earnings |
Annual gross income of Geraldine A. Ferraro for the year 1984 |
$332,470 |
|
1984 |
Asset |
Estimated value of Geraldine Ferraro's assets that includes half interest in houses jointly owned with her husband in Forest Hills and Fire Island, N.Y., a jointly owned condominium apartment on St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands, four lots on Fire Island owned solely by Ferraro, cash, bonds, an automobile, personal property and a one-third interest in P. Zaccaro Co., Inc., one of the family companies |
$760,000 |
|
1984 |
Earnings |
Combined annual gross income average of Geraldine A. Ferraro and her husband, John A. Zaccaro for the past five years |
$173,000 |