Allyson Schwartz (D-Penn.), who ran for Governor of Pennsylvania in 2014. The other Democrats in the race were state Rep. Brendan Boyle of Northeast Philadelphia; state Senator Daylin Leach of Montgomery County; and Dr. Valerie Arkoosh, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. State Rep. Mark B. Cohen of Philadelphia and former City Controller Jonathan Saidel filed to run, but later withdrew. On May 17, 2014, Hillary Clinton held her first fundraiser of the year for Margolies's congressional campaign. On May 20, 2014, Margolies lost the primary election to Boyle. Personal life Margolies married Edward Mezvinsky of Iowa in 1975; they divorced in 2007. During their marriage, she was known as Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky. They had 11 children altogether, four from his first marriage, two she adopted on her own, two sons they had together, and three children they adopted together. In 1970, Margolies adopted a daughter from Korea; this was reportedly the first time an unmarried American woman had adopted a foreign child. From their 11 children, the Mezvinskys have 18 grandchildren as of 2014. Marc Mezvinsky, one of Margolies's sons with Edward Mezvinsky, married Chelsea Clinton, the daughter of former U.S. President Bill Clinton and former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The wedding took place on July 31, 2010, in Rhinebeck, New York. Works They Came to Stay, Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1976 Finding someone to love, Playboy Press Paperbacks, 1980, The Girls in the Newsroom, Charter Communications, Inc., 1983, A woman's place: the freshman women who changed the face of Congress, Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky, Barbara Feinman, Crown Publishers, 1994, And How Are the Children? Timeless Lessons from the Frontlines of Motherhood (memoir), Wyatt-MacKenzie Publishing, 2021, See also List of Jewish members of the United States Congress Women in the United States House of Representatives References External links 1942 births Living people American television reporters and correspondents Emmy Award winners Columbia University fellows Female members of the United States House of Representatives Jewish members of the United States House of Representatives Jewish women politicians Candidates in the 1998 United States elections 20th-century American politicians Politicians from Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania alumni Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania faculty Women in Pennsylvania politics Journalists from Pennsylvania 20th-century American women politicians Mezvinsky family American women television journalists American women academics