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About Althea Garrison
- Althea Garrison (born October 7, 1940) is an independent American politician from Boston, Massachusetts, currently serving on the Boston City Council as an at-large councilor. Garrison was elected as a Republican to the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1992 and served one term from 1993 to 1995.
- Both before and after Garrison's successful bid for office, she has run unsuccessfully in multiple elections for the state legislature and Boston City Council, as a Republican, Democrat, or independent, which has resulted in her being described in the media as a "perennial candidate".
- Garrison is also known as the first transgender person to be elected to a state legislature in the United States.Garrison later served as an at-large member of the Boston City Council from 2018 to 2019 due to a vacancy left by Ayanna Pressley's election to the United States House of Representatives.
- Because Garrison was the next-place finisher in the 2017 Boston City Council election, she was eligible to take office per City Council rules.
- She was not re-elected in 2019.
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