Blair, Emily Newell, 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.
From the description of Emily Newell Blair family papers, 1785-1972 [microform]. (Rhinelander District Library). WorldCat record id: 48895917
From the description of Family papers, 1785-1972. (Rhinelander District Library). WorldCat record id: 23238427
From the description of Emily Newell Blair papers, series II, 1896-1951. (Rhinelander District Library). WorldCat record id: 43265444
Blair was a suffragist, feminist, writer, and Democratic party official. For biographical information, see Notable American Women: The ModernPeriod (1980).
From the description of Gamma's story : autobiography of Emily Newell Blair. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232008821
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- Authors, American
- Feminism
- Feminists
- Frontier and pioneer life
- Journalism, Consumer
- Presidents
- World War, 1914-1918
- Women
- Women
- Women
- Women
- Women's rights
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- United States (as recorded)
- United States (as recorded)
- United States (as recorded)
- Pennsylvania--Venango County (as recorded)
- Missouri (as recorded)
- Pennsylvania--Venango County (as recorded)
- United States (as recorded)
