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{{Short description|American politician (1929–2017)}}
{{Infobox officeholder
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Marshall was born on September 30, 1929,<ref name="NYTimes 2001-09-04"/> in [[the Bronx]],<ref>Bilefsky, Dan. [http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/26/in-queens-a-lament-that-the-borough-is-shortchanged/ "In Queens, a Lament That the Borough Is Shortchanged"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', January 26, 2011.</ref> having been raised in between both [[Harlem]] and the [[Bronx]]. Both of her parents were immigrants of African descent from [[British Guiana]] (now [[Guyana]]).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.newsamericasnow.com/late-guyanese-american-nyc-politician-to-be-remembered/|title = Caribbean News, Latin America News|date = 14 March 2017}}</ref>
She graduated with a [[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]] in education from [[Queens College, City University of New York|CUNY Queens College]]. She was a teacher for eight years. In 1969, she left teaching to become the first Director of the Langston Hughes Library in Queens. She was married to Donald Edward Marshall until his death; they had two children, Donald Jr. and Agnes Marie.<ref name="queensbp">{{cite web|url=http://www.queensbp.org/content_web/Press/press_bio.shtml |title=Biography of Helen M. Marshall|publisher=Office of the Queens Borough President|access-date=March 1, 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110208042015/http://queensbp.org/content_web/Press/press_bio.shtml|archive-date=February 8, 2011}}</ref> She entered politics as a [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]].<ref name="NYT obit">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/04/nyregion/helen-marshall-dead.html|title=Helen M. Marshall, First Black Borough President of Queens, Dies at 87|newspaper=The New York Times|first=Christopher|last=Mele|date=March 5, 2017|access-date=March 5, 2017}}</ref> She was a member of the [[New York State Assembly]] for eight years and a member of the [[New York City Council]] for ten.<ref name="NYT obit"/>
She was elected as Borough President of Queens in November 2001, to succeed the term-limited [[Claire Shulman]]. As Borough President, Marshall made marketing Queens as a [[tourist destination]] one of her priorities. In 2005, she won a second term, defeating her Republican/Conservative challenger [[Philip T. Sica]] with 75% of the vote to his 25%. She was inaugurated to her second term as President of the Borough of Queens on January 3, 2006, in a ceremony held at [[Terrace on the Park]] in [[Flushing Meadows Corona Park]]. Marshall outlined her plans for the next four years including health care, education, housing and new park projects. In November 2009, Marshall was re-elected to a third term.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Roberts|first=S|url=https://nytimes.com|title=For first time, minority vote was a majority in the city|date=December 26, 2009|work=New York Times|access-date=March 11, 2020
In 2017, P.S. 330 was renamed the Helen M. Marshall School to honor her legacy.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Our Story |url=https://www.hmmarshall.org/about_us/our_story |access-date=2024-03-16 |website=www.hmmarshall.org |language=en-US}}</ref>
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