Mary Matalin

On May 5, 2016, Matalin announced she has changed her party registration to Libertarian.\n', '

Matalin grew up in the Chicago suburb of Burnham, Illinois, the daughter of Eileen (née Emerson), who ran beauty salons, and Steven Matalin, a steel mill worker. Her paternal grandparents were Croatian immigrants and her mother was of Irish descent. Matalin originally intended to follow her mother into the beauty salon profession, and briefly considered becoming a model. Instead, Matalin attended Thornton Fractional North High School and attended Western Illinois University for college and Hofstra University School of Law, where she was enrolled for one year before dropping out.\n', '

Matalin\'s first campaign was Illinois Lieutenant Governor Dave O\'Neal\'s bid for the U.S. Senate in 1980, a race O\'Neal lost to Alan Dixon.[citation needed] After O\'Neal\'s loss, Matalin began her career wit…