Jeanne Dorsey Mandel

Infobox First Lady
name = Jeanne Dorsey Mandel


birth_date = May 11, 1937cite web |url=http://www.msa.md.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc3500/sc3520/002200/002295/html/2295bio.html |title=Jeanne Blackistone Dorsey Mandel |accessdate=2008-08-11 |work=www.msa.md.gov |publisher=Maryland State Archives ]
birth_place = Leonardtown, Maryland
death_date = Death date and age|2001|10|6|1937|5|11
death_place = Annapolis, Maryland
restingplace = Lakemont Memorial Gardens, Davidsonville, Maryland [cite web |url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=8546704 |title=Jeanne Blackistone Mandel |accessdate=2008-08-02 |work=findagrave.com |date=2004-03-22 ]
profession = Politician
order= First Lady of Maryland
term_start= August 13, 1974
term_end= January 17, 1979
predecessor = Barbara Oberfeld Mandel
successor = Patricia Donoho Hughes
alma_mater = Strayer College
religion= Roman Catholic converted to Judaism
spouse = Walter B. Dorsey (m. 1955 – 1969 "div."),
Marvin Mandel (m. August 13, 1974)
relations = Nehemiah Blakiston (Governor of Maryland colony, 1690–1692,
Nathaniel Blakiston (royal governor of Maryland colony, 1698–1702),
John Blakiston (c. 1603–1649, a regicide of King Charles I of England),
William J. Blakistone (Speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates, 1834 and 1847)
children = Philip, Helen, John, and Paul (all during her first marriage)|

Jeanne Blackistone Dorsey Mandel (May 11, 1937 – October 6, 2001) was a First Lady of Maryland, and second wife of former Maryland Governor Marvin Mandel, whom she had met in January 1963.cite news |first=Karen |last=Hosler |title=Forever after |url=http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/politics/bal-couple021101,0,3034317.story |work=baltimoresun.com |publisher=The Baltimore Sun |date=2001-02-11 |accessdate=2008-08-11 ] Mrs. Mandel died from Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease).

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