found: The Work of a Congresswoman. [FS] 1974.
found: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance. Nominations of Margaret M. Heckler and John A. Svehn, 1983 (x-ref)t.p. (Margaret M. Heckler, to be Secretary of Dept. of Health and Human Services) p. 4 (b. Margaret Mary O'Shaughnessy)
found: Biog. dir. of the U.S. Cong. online, viewed Sept. 29, 2010(Heckler, Margaret M., a Representative from Mass.; b. Margaret Mary O'Shaughnessy, June 21, 1931)
found: Washington post WWW site, viewed Aug. 7, 2018(Margaret M. Heckler, an eight-term Republican congresswoman from Massachusetts who later became secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services under President Ronald Reagan before serving as U.S. ambassador to Ireland, died Aug. 6 [2018] in Arlington, Va; she was 87; in 1966, she unseated a former speaker of the House to win the Republican nomination for her district in suburban Boston; when she took office in 1967, was one of only 11 women in the U.S. House of Representatives; 16 years in the House; eased out of her job as HHS secretary in October 1985 and offered the job of U.S. ambassador to Ireland; served in that position until 1989; retired to Arlington; Margaret Mary O'Shaughnessy was born June 21, 1931, in the Flushing section of Queens; husband John M. Heckler)
