Phyllis W. McQuaid | |
State Senate: | Minnesota |
District: | 44th |
Term Start: | 1983 |
Term End: | 1990 |
Birth Name: | Phyllis Winifred Haas |
Birth Date: | 6 March 1928 |
Birth Place: | Frazee, Minnesota, U.S. |
Death Place: | Roseville, Minnesota, U.S. |
Party: | Independent Republican |
Spouse: | Joseph McQuaid |
Children: | 8 |
Phyllis Winifred McQuaid (née Haas; March 6, 1928 – June 7, 2023) was an American politician in the state of Minnesota.
After raising eight children as a stay-at-home mother, McQuaid was elected in 1975 to the St. Louis Park School Board and in 1979 as mayor of St. Louis Park.[1] [2]
McQuaid served in the Minnesota Senate as an Independent Republican member, representing district 44 from 1983 to 1990, when she lost re-election to Ted Mondale.[3] She died in Roseville, Minnesota, in 2023, at the age of 95.[4]