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September 25, 2007

Former Mass. Gov. Swift will speak at Brown

PROVIDENCE -- Former Massachusetts governor Jane Swift is scheduled to speak at the Taubman Center for Public Policy and American Institutions at Brown University this afternoon.

Swift was the first and only woman to serve as governor of Massachusetts. She was not elected, but appointed while serving as lieutenant governor. She assumed the governorship after Gov. Argeo Paul Cellucci resigned to serve as Ambassador to Canada.

She served from 2001 to 2003.

Her lecture, titled “Rising to the Occasion: Public Leadership in Challenging Times,” is free and open to the public. It begins at 4 p.m. at the Salomon Center for Teaching, on the green, in room 001.

Swift’s visit comes on the heals of another politician looking to make a first, Sen. Hillary Clinton, the first female Senator elected in New York, and aspiring first woman president, is scheduled to arrive in the Ocean State tomorrow for a fundraiser in East Greenwich.

The event caused a shake-up in the capital city, when the threat of a firefighter and police picket of the event forced Providence mayor David N. Cicilline to resign his role as co-chairman of Clinton’s Rhode Island campaign, and pledge not to attend the event.

-- projo.com staff writer Brandie M. Jefferson

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