Anne Clark Martindell (July 18, 1914 – June 11, 2008) was an American Democratic Party politician from New Jersey, as well as a diplomat who was United States Ambassador to New Zealand from 1979 to 1981.
After one year at Smith, she was forbidden from returning to campus by her father, a federal judge in Newark, who was later appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
[4] She attended the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago to show support for McCarthy, as well as for the New Jersey gubernatorial candidate Robert B. Meyner, a friend of the family.
At the end of her four-year appointment, local Democrats encouraged her to run for the New Jersey Senate in 1973 in a traditionally Republican district encompassing parts of Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex and Morris counties.
She managed to beat the incumbent state senator, William E. Schluter, in a year when Republicans battled the specter of the Watergate scandal and Democrats were buoyed by the landslide victory of Brendan Byrne as Governor of New Jersey.
[6] Martindell signed the Treaty of Tokehega on behalf of the United States, which delimited the maritime boundary between Tokelau and American Samoa.