Biography
Rosalind Wiener was born October 4, 1930, in Los Angeles to Oscar and Sarah Selten Wiener. Her father was a pharmacist, and her mother also studied pharmacy so she could help run a drugstore with her husband at 9th Street and Western Avenue (in today's Koreatown). Sarah Wiener volunteered at juvenile hall in Los Angeles, where a room was named in her honor. Rosalind had a brother, George, thirteen years older than she, who died in 1972. Rosalind was graduated from Los Angeles High School in 1948 and from the University of Southern California in 1952, with a bachelor of science degree in public administration. She was a recreation director and had plans to go to law school before being elected to the City Council in 1953.
Wiener was married to attorney Eugene Wyman in 1954, and they had three children—Betty Lynn, Robert Alan and Brad Hibbs. She is a Conservative Jew. Her husband, who, like his wife, was influential in national Democratic politics, died of a heart attack in January 1973.
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