Whitehouse, Vira Boarman, 1875-1957
Vira (Boarman) Whitehouse was born in Virginia on September 16, 1875, the daughter of Robert and Cornelia (Terrell) Boarman. Educated at Newcomb College in New Orleans, VBW married Norman de R. Whitehouse, a New York stockbroker, on April 13, 1898. The couple had one child, Alice (Whitehouse) Harjes.
As chairman in 1913 of the publicity council of the Empire State Campaign Committee and in 1916 of the New York State Woman Suffrage Party (NYSWSP), VBW was a leader in securing suffrage for New York women in November 1917. In 1918, VBW became director of the Swiss office of the United States Committee on Public Information; her assignment was to "combat the German propaganda and make plain the aims of the American people" ( Who Was Who, vol. 5, 1973, p. 776). She published a book, A Year as a Government Agent (1920), recounting this experience.
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