Ann McBride Norton
American activist and executive
About Ann McBride Norton
Lived 1944 – 2020 (aged 75). Ann McBride Norton was an American lobbyist.
Ann McBride Norton (June 23, 1944 – May 5, 2020) was an American activist and non-profit executive. She served as president of Common Cause, a non-partisan watchdog group based in Washington, D.C. She also founded Photovoices International, where she directed projects in China and Indonesia.
Biography Virginia Ann deGravelles was born in Lafayette, Louisiana on June 23, 1944.
Norton attended Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana but left in 1964 to marry Charles W. McBride, who was press secretary to Russell B. Long and chief of staff to J. Bennett Johnston. after she retired from Common Cause in 1999. from complications associated with Alzheimer's disease. Her husband and her two children with her first husband, Claire McBride and Mary McBride, survive her.
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American activist and executive
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Ann McBride Norton was born on 23 June 1944 in Lafayette.
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Ann McBride Norton died on 5 May 2020.
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Ann McBride Norton was a lobbyist.
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