Igoe at the polls four days later, but she remained semiconscious. On October 31, 1980, Spellman was stricken with a heart attack while campaigning for a fourth term. She was reelected to the next three congresses. Having aligned herself with the Democratic Party (as most American Jews of the time did), Spellman was elected to the Ninety-Fourth Congress of the United States from the Fifth Maryland District and began her service on January 3, 1975. She served as the county’s councilwoman at large from 1971 to 1974 and was president of the National Association of Counties by 1972. Johnson appointed her to the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations. Also in the same period, she headed the board of trustees of Prince George’s General Hospital. From 1962 to 1970, she was a member of Prince George’s County board of commissioners, serving as its chair beginning in 1966. Settling in Maryland, Spellman taught in Prince George’s County schools. After attending public schools in New York and Washington, D.C., she studied at George Washington University and then at the graduate school of the United States Department of Agriculture.
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