Life
She was born to L. Stanley Kemp, a high school teacher and later FBI agent, and Frances Stufflebean Kemp, a former teacher and homemaker. She has one younger brother, Bill.
She was born as Sarah Jane Kemp in Missouri and raised in Alexandria, Virginia.
She graduated from the College of William and Mary in 1964. From 1964 to 1968 she was a public school teacher in Virginia. She married James Brady in Alexandria, Virginia on July 21, 1973. On December 29, 1978, their only son, James Scott Brady, Jr., was born.
From 1968 to 1970 she worked as assistant to the campaign director for the National Republican Congressional Committee. She then worked as an administrative aide, first for Mike McKevitt (R-CO) and then for Joseph J. Maraziti (R-NJ). From 1974 to 1978 Sarah Brady worked as director of administration and coordinator of field services for the Republican National Committee.
Her husband sustained a permanently disabling head wound during the Reagan assassination attempt which occurred on March 30, 1981. James Brady remained as Press Secretary for the remainder of Reagan's administration, but this was primarily a titular role.
Alongside her husband, Sarah Brady became "one of the nation's leading crusaders for gun control". They later became active in the lobbying organization (named Handgun Control, Inc.) that would eventually be renamed the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.
Despite her support for gun control, she bought her adult son a hunting rifle as a Christmas present. The New York Daily News and WND suggested she may have "skirted" Delaware's background-check requirements for gun purchases.
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