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Article: Journalist Became Successful Annapolis Lobbyist
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- May 19, 2009
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Carolyn T. Burridge, 62, a former broadcast journalist who
founded one of the top woman-owned lobbying firms in Annapolis, died
May 6 of cervical cancer at Gilchrist Hospice in Baltimore. She was
a former resident of the District.
Mrs. Burridge was keeping the books for her husband's lobbying
firm, Burridge Associates, when, in 1983, the FMC Corp., a large
Washington-based chemical company, asked her to be its
representative in Annapolis. Two years later, she decided to open
her own firm, CTB Government Relations.
Mrs. Burridge, a Republican, represented manufacturers,
transportation companies, educational institutions and an
association for children with multiple disabilities. She ...