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Maxine Waters (born Maxine Moore Carr on August 15, 1938) has served as a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1991, representing the 35th District of California (map). more...

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She resides in South Los Angeles, in the Vermont Square district approximately six miles south of downtown.

Her husband, Sidney Williams, is a former U.S. Ambassador to the Bahamas.

Biography

Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Waters graduated from Sumner High School in St. Louis and attended Los Angeles State College (now California State University, Los Angeles). Prior to her entry into politics, she was a teacher and a volunteer coordinator in the Head Start program. Waters entered the California State Assembly in 1976. Upon the retirement of Augustus F. Hawkins in 1990, Waters was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives for the 29th Congressional District. (The district was renumbered the 35th District in 1992 after California gained seven additional seats in the House after the 1990 U.S. census.)

As a first-term representative, she gained fame by walking into the Oval Office and telling then-President George H.W. Bush, "Your time is up." Waters co-chaired the 1992 presidential campaign of Bill Clinton.

She was also featured as two monolouges in Anna Deavere Smith's Twilight Los Angeles, 1992, where she recalls a trip to the White House where she burst in to a meeting, uninvited, and tries to speak to her people. Her office was burnt down in the riots of 1992.

In addition to her service on the House Banking and Judiciary committees, Waters has served as chair of the Congressional Black Caucus (of which she remains a member). She is also a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.

Controversy

Accusations made by Maxine Waters

Waters is most noted and criticized for accusing the United States Government, specifically Representatives Mark Foley, Elijah Cummings, and Kendrick Meek, of masterminding the 2004 Haiti rebellion that ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide from power and the Bush administration for the Venezuelan coup attempt of 2002 that temporarily removed Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez from power. She has referred to Haitian Prime Minister Gérard Latortue as an "illegitimate puppet" of Canada, France, and the United States, accusing the governments of these respective countries of actively helping Guy Philippe, Louis-Jodel Chamblain and Jean Tatun burn police stations and kill civilians. She has called upon President George W. Bush to "accept responsibility for the ongoing violence, the chaos, and the blatant attempts to steal these elections."

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