<Tr> <Th> Alma mater </Th> <Td> Trinity College </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Website </Th> <Td> Quinn for New York </Td> </Tr> <P> Christine Callaghan Quinn (born July 25, 1966) is an American politician . A member of the Democratic Party, she formerly served as the Speaker of the New York City Council . The third person to hold this office, she was the first female and first openly gay speaker . She ran to succeed Michael Bloomberg as the city's mayor in the 2013 mayoral election, but lost the Democratic primary . Quinn is a CNN political contributor . </P> <P> Quinn was born in Glen Cove, New York, one of two daughters of Mary (née Callaghan) and Lawrence Quinn . Her mother died of breast cancer in 1982 . She went to School of the Holy Child in the village of Old Westbury on Long Island in New York, and graduated from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut in 1988 . Her maternal grandmother, Ellen (née Shine) Callaghan, was a survivor of the sinking of the RMS Titanic . </P>

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