Mary Mccarthy, Candidate's Daughter

BRANFORD, Conn. - Mary Abigail McCarthy, a professor at Yale Law School, died of pancreatic cancer Saturday at the age of 41.

Ms. McCarthy, who was active in the civil rights and anti-war movements in the 1960s, skipped a semester at Radcliffe College in 1968 to campaign for her father, Sen. Eugene McCarthy, who was seeking the Democratic presidential nomination.

McCarthy, 74, said his daughter dedicated her career to public-interest law, first as a public defender in Washington, D.C., and later at Yale, where she specialized in legal services for juveniles, the disabled, prison inmates, immigrants and the indigent.

She attended the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and received her law degree from New York University in 1976. She joined the Yale faculty in 1982 as a professor at the school's legal clinic. She was the clinic's co-director at the time of her death.