Morella, Constance A. (Constance Albanese), 1931-

Constance Morella (/məˈrɛlə/; née Albanese; born February 12, 1931) is an American politician and diplomat. She represented Maryland's 8th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1987 to 2003.

Born Constance Albanese in Somerville, Massachusetts, she attended school there, graduating from Somerville High School in 1948, she attended Boston University, where she earned an Associate of Arts in 1950 and a Bachelor of Arts in 1954. After marrying Anthony Morella, she became a Republican and moved to Bethesda, Maryland. Morella became a secondary school teacher in the Montgomery County, Maryland public schools from 1957 to 1961. She graduated from American University with an M.A. in 1967 and was an instructor there from 1968 to 1970, when she became a professor at Montgomery College in Rockville, Maryland. She continued to teach until 1985.

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