Editing Barbara Boxer (section)

==Early career==
Boxer worked as a [[stockbroker]] in the early 1960s while her husband went to [[law school]].<ref name="retro" /> In 1968, after relocating to California, she worked on the presidential primary campaign of antiwar challenger [[Eugene McCarthy]]. In 1970, she co-founded the anti-[[Vietnam War]] Marin Alliance.<ref name=history/>

Boxer first ran for political office in 1972, when she challenged incumbent Republican Peter Arrigoni, a member of the [[Marin County Board of Supervisors]], but lost a close election.{{citation needed|date=August 2023}}  From 1972 to 1974, Boxer worked as a reporter and editor for the ''[[Pacific Sun (newspaper)|Pacific Sun]]''.<ref name=history/> She then managed the Marin campaign of [[John Burton (American politician)|John Burton]], the brother of [[Phillip Burton]], who then was the congressman representing southern [[San Francisco, California]]. John Burton intended to run against incumbent Republican District 6 Congressman [[William S. Mailliard]] from [[Belvedere, California]]. The district would be renumbered as the 5th District in January 1975.<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1992/06/12/william-mailliard-dies/a61e0c35-b494-4979-98a6-cbe48fb97a16/ William Mailliard Dies], ''[[Washington Post]]'', June 12, 1992. Retrieved July 15, 2022.</ref>{{failed verification|date=August 2023}} However, Mailliard resigned on March 5, 1974, so John Burton also ran in the special election to fill the remainder of the incumbent's 6th District term.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/cgi-bin/newmemberbio.cgi?lang=&member=CAJR&site=ctc|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050912103225/http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/cgi-bin/newmemberbio.cgi?lang=&member=CAJR&site=ctc|url-status=dead|title=Information on Senator Barbara Boxer of California|archive-date=September 12, 2005}}</ref>{{failed verification|date=August 2023}} Burton narrowly won both crowded races and was sworn into office in 1974,{{citation needed|date=August 2023}} and Boxer became his staff aide.<ref name=history/>

In 1976, Boxer was elected to the [[Marin County Board of Supervisors]], serving for six years.<ref name="retro" /> She was the board's first female president.<ref>{{cite web |last=Brody |first=Seymour "Sy" |title=Barbara Boxer (1940– ) |url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Boxer.html |publisher=Jewishvirtuallibrary.org |date=1996 |access-date=March 6, 2012}}</ref>