Shirley Borhauer

Shirley Ursala Borhauer was an American politician. She served in the Arkansas House of Representatives from 2001 to 2007.

Early life

Borhauer was born Shirley Ursala Czosek on October 2, 1926, in Chicago, Illinois. Her parents were Edmund Stanislaw Czosek, a machinery operator for the Felt and Tarrant Manufacturing Company, and Clara Victoria Mindikowski Czosek, a Democratic election official. She was the youngest child, with one older sister, Phillis Mildred Czosek Black. She attended local public schools and graduated from Blue Island High School in 1944.

Political career

Borhauer contested a race to replace Thomas Fitzpatrick as alderman for the 19th ward in Chicago in the 1975 election. She ran for a seat in the Arkansas House of Representatives in the 2000 general election and was elected for a seat representing district 4 at the age of 74. She sponsored a successful constitutional amendment that would allow bingos and raffles to be used for charitable purposes.