Anne Wexler, a well-connected political power broker who founded the first major Washington lobbying firm to be led by a woman, and who was considered one of the capital’s most influential lobbyists, died Aug. 7 of cancer at her home in Washington, D.C. She was 79.
Wexler began her unlikely rise to prominence in Democratic Party circles as a Connecticut housewife who joined the PTA and a local zoning board. By 1978, she had carved out an important role in the Carter White House and used her skills at compromise and negotiation to win support on Capitol Hill for the administration’s legislative programs.
In 1981, she founded Wexler &Associates with two other two other Carter White House veterans, Gail L. Harrison and Robert Schule.
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