Marjorie Clapprood

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| name = Marjorie Clapprood

| state_house = Massachusetts

| district = 8th Norfolk

| term_start = January 2, 1985

| term_end = January 2, 1991

| predecessor = William R. Keating

| successor = Louis Kafka

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1949|09|24}}

| birth_place = Boston, Massachusetts

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| nationality = American

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| residence = Sharon, Massachusetts

| party = Democrat

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| alma_mater = Stonehill College (BS)

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Marjorie O'Neill Clapprood{{cite book |title=Massachusetts Election Statistics 1990 |year=1990 |url=https://archive.org/stream/massachusettsele1990mass#page/100/mode/2up }} (born September 24, 1949, in Boston, Massachusetts{{cite book |title=Public officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts |year=1989 | url=https://archive.org/stream/publicofficersof19891990bost#page/110/mode/2up }} ) is an American former politician and talk show host who served as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives for the 8th Norfolk District from 1985 to 1991. Clapprood was the Democratic nominee for Lieutenant Governor in 1990.

Political career

Clapprood was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1984. She was a candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts in 1990, winning the Democratic nomination, but losing in the general election.

In 1998, Clapprood ran for the United States House of Representatives seat in Massachusetts's 8th congressional district. She finished fifth in a ten-way Democratic primary with 12.29% of the vote.{{cite web|title=Our Campaigns - MA District 8 - D Primary Race - Sep 15, 1998|url=http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=28356|website=www.ourcampaigns.com}}

Talk show career

Following her defeat in 1990, Clapprood joined WHDH radio as a talk show host and taught a class at Clark University. In 1992, she joined the newly launched New England Cable News.{{cite news |title=First Radio, Now TV for Busy Clapprood |url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=WO&p_theme=wo&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EADEB8155E1B102&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval |work=Worcester Telegram & Gazette |date= October 2, 1992|access-date=2010-08-17 }} In 1993, Lifetime hired Clapprood to host a late-night public affairs talk show called Clapprood Live.{{cite news |author=Josef Adalian |title=Clapprood gets the chance of Lifetime |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/bostonherald/access/68176395.html?dids=68176395:68176395&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT |work=Boston Herald |date=December 30, 1993 |access-date=2010-08-17 |archive-date=2012-11-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121103142545/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/bostonherald/access/68176395.html?dids=68176395:68176395&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT |url-status=dead }}

Clapprood moved her radio show to WRKO in May 1993, where she remained until 1997.{{cite news |author=Dean Johnson |title=First Radio, Now TV for Busy Clapprood |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/bostonherald/access/68107384.html?dids=68107384:68107384&FMT=ABS&FMTS |work=Boston Herald |date=May 7, 1993 |access-date=2010-08-17 |archive-date=2012-11-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121103142659/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/bostonherald/access/68107384.html?dids=68107384:68107384&FMT=ABS&FMTS |url-status=dead }}

Clapprood returned to radio in 2000, hosting the midday show at WMEX. She left the station when it was sold later that year.