Mankin, Helen Douglas, 1896-1956
Helen Douglas Mankin (September 11, 1896 – July 25, 1956) was an American lawyer and politician. She was the second woman to represent Georgia in the United States House of Representatives, serving from February 1946 to January 1947.
Born Helen Douglas in Atlanta, she attended public and private schools there before attending Rockford College in Rockford, Illinois, where she graduated with an A.B. in 1917. After serving as a civilian ambulasnce driver in a Red Cross unit attached to the French army in 1918 and 1919, she earned a LL.B. from Atlanta Law School in 1920. A year later, the state of Georgia admitted her to the bar along with her 61-year-old mother when the state legislature lifted the bar’s ban on women. For two years, she and her sister toured North America by car before she opened a law office in 1924, specializing in aid to poor and Black clients while supplementing her income as a lecturer at the Atlanta Law School. Her first political experience came as the women’s manager of I. N. Ragsdale’s campaign for mayor of Atlanta in 1927. That year, Douglas married Guy M. Mankin.
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