Although only semi-conscious during the balloting four days later, she was re-elected by an overwhelming majority. On October 31, 1980, Spellman suffered a heart attack while on the campaign trail to her fourth term in office. Two years later, she supported the establishment of a bank to provide loans to consumer-owned cooperatives, and an extension of the federal revenue-sharing program. Help pull New York City out of severe financial difficulties in 1975. As a member of the Committee on Banking, Currency and Housing, Spellman voted for a proposal authorizing $7 billion in loan guarantees to She favored adjusted cost-of-living increases for those retired from the military and federal notification of retirees' spouses if they would not be receiving survivors' benefits. When President Jimmy Carter proposed reforms to the civil service system in 1978, she opposed the measures, reserving special criticism for the Senior Executive Service as something which would politicize the civil service. She supported the training of civil servants in labor-management relations through a proposed amendment to the Intergovernmental Personnel Act of 1970, and rejected hiring and promotion restrictions of federal workers. Spellman focused much of her attention on the civil service during her career in Congress. She won election that year to the first of three terms in Congress. Her three-year term as councilwoman-at-large, beginning in 1971, catapulted her into a bid for the Fifth District seat in the U.S. She initially became involved in politics through her 1962 election to the Prince Georges County Board of Commissioners, winning re-election in 1966. Department of Agriculture, she taught in the public schools of Prince Georges County, Maryland. Department of Agriculture married Reuben Spellman children: Stephen, Richard, Dana, and Eric.īorn Gladys Blossom Noon in 1918 in New York City, Gladys Spellman received her early education in New York City and Washington, D.C., before enrolling in George Washington University. attended George Washington University in Washington, D.C., and the graduate school of the U.S. Noon educated at public schools in New York City and Washington, D.C. Born Gladys Blossom Noon in New York City on Madied in Rockville, Maryland, on Jdaughter of Henry Noon and Bessie G. congressional representative from Maryland (January 3, 1975–February 24, 1981).
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