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Sophie Sharpe
Age: 32
Occupation: Community Organizer, Labor Activist
Party: Democratic Party
Bio: Sophie Sharpe was born in Vernonia, Oregon to a logger and schoolteacher. One of six children, the family’s politics were shaped around the progressive causes of labor and community organizing. Sophie was a good student, and her family urged her to go to college. At 18, she attended the University of Oregon and achieved a graduate degree.
Hoping to be closer to her family she moved to Salem where she originally got a job as a teacher. As a teacher, she quickly became involved in the local union, organizing her fellow teachers and leading strikes on behalf of the workers in the school. In Salem, she also met her husband, Harold Sharpe, a state representative. The two had a whirlwind romance before Harold’s untimely death in a plane crash. Sophie’s political career would begin fully here, when she was appointed to his seat, won the special election, and a full term in 1958.
While she originally supported the more progressive Senator Hubert Humphrey at the convention, she was a willing supporter of Douglas in the general. Her progressive views on civil rights made her bristle at the embrace of Storm Thurmond by the Vice Presidential candidate, but the liberal platform the party agreed to assuaged some of these concerns. Her primary focus is now electing Democrats up and down the ballot.
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