Blair, Emily Newell, 1877-
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Blair, Emily Newell
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Blair, Emily Newell 1877-1951
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Blair, Emily Newell, b. 1877
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Emily Newell Blair
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Blair, Emily N. 1877-1951
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Newell, Emily, 1877-
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Emily Newell Blair was a suffragist, feminist, Democratic Party official, mother and writer. During World War I she worked in the press department of the Missouri Woman's Committee of the Council of National Defense, eventually becoming vice chair. Representing Missouri on the Democratic National Committee, Blair was chosen national vice chair responsible for organizing women voters and women's activities, and eventually rose to first vice president, organized 2,000 plus Democratic women's clubs, and helped found the Woman's National Democratic Club. In 1935, she was appointed to the Consumers' Advisory Board of the National Recovery Administration, and, in 1942, was appointed chief of the Women's Interest Section of the War Department's Public Relations Bureau. Her husband, Harry Wallace Blair, was U.S. Assistant Attorney General in the Land Div. of the Justice Dept. in the 1930s and later served with the President's Loyalty Review Board.
Blair was a suffragist, feminist, writer, and Democratic party official. For biographical information, see Notable American Women: The ModernPeriod (1980).
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World War, 1914-1918
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