Marie ragghianti biography
Marie ragghianti biography
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Marie Ragghianti
American politician
Marie Fajardo Ragghianti (born June 13, 1942)[1] is an American parole board administrator, famous as the whistleblower who exposed TennesseeGovernorRay Blanton's "clemency for cash" scandal in 1977-79.
Ragghianti grew up in Florida, where she was regarded as a beauty queen.[2] She married a boxer, but her husband became an alcoholic. Their son nearly died from a lung infection at the age of two.[3] They divorced, leaving Ragghianti with three young children.[2]
In 1971, at the age of 29, Ragghianti won a scholarship to Vanderbilt University,[3] and earned a Bachelor of Science in English Literature and Psychology (1975).
She was active in the Vanderbilt Young Democrats Club and caught the attention of newly elected governor Blanton's legal counsel, T. Edward "Eddie" Sisk.[3] She was an extradition officer for the Tennessee Department of Correction (1975–76) and the chair of the