June 13, 2008 - 10:11am
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Sara Gear Boyd, former Majority Leader, dies

Sara Gear Boyd, who served as Majority leader of the Vermont Senate and State House of Representatives, passed away on Tuesday after a battle with cancer.  She was 67.  A former Secretary of the Republican National Committee was the first woman to serve as Majority Leader of both houses of a state legislature.  Read Senator Boyd’s obituary in the Boston Globe.

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