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Louise Slaughter meets with Albert PaleyAfter four years in the state assembly, Slaughter decided to run for the Democratic nomination in New York's 30th congressional district.

At the time, the district included downtown and eastern Rochester, most of eastern Monroe County as well as Genesee County, New York and northern Livingston County, New York and Ontario County, New York counties.

Moderate Republican Barber Conable had represented the district for 20 years before giving way in 1985 to a considerably more conservative Republican, Fred J. Eckert.

Slaughter managed a one-point victory in the 1986 midterm election.

Slaughter was the first Democrat to represent the 30th District since 1910, first woman to represent Western New York, as well as the first Democrat ever elected to a full term from the 30th since its creation in 1893 ( it had been renumbered several times in the previous century ).