Niki tsongas biography

By 1967 she was protesting the Vietnam War and joining other idealistic Smith students in a volunteer corps campaigning for antiwar presidential candidate Sen.

Eugene McCarthy. “It was incredible exposure to someone who was motivated by deeply felt ideas,” Tsongas recalls. “I was really drawn to [his candidacy].”

For Tsongas,the daughter of a 20-year Air Force veteran, answering the call was in her blood.

“I grew up in an environment where service to our country was very important,” Tsongas says. This year, she retires
after more than 10 years in the U.S. Congress, where she leaves her mark as a fighter for gender equality and an influential member of the U.S.

House Armed Services Committee.

Niki Sauvage was still at Smith when she met and eventually married Paul Tsongas, who would go on to become a Democratic senator for Massachusetts and an eventual presidential candidate.

Niki went to law school and founded the first all-woman law firm in Lo