Bertha S. Adkins Papers. 1928 - 1983. Personal Files, 1928 - 1983
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Stiebeling, Hazel Katherine, 1896-1989
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Hazel Katherine Stiebeling (1896-1989) became the head of USDA’s Section of Food Economics in 1930. During her career, she pioneered the application of sample survey methods to national nutrition problems in order to understand the food habits of population groups. In the 1930s, she helped devise an emergency plan for feeding the victims of severe droughts in the southern United States. Her research and interest in diet deficiencies in the United States led to the development of school lunch pro...
Sharp, Susie Marshall, 1907-1996
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Susie Marshall Sharp was born in Rocky Mount, N.C., on 7 July 1907 to James Merritt Sharp and Annie Britt Blackwell Sharp. She was the eldest of seven children who survived to adulthood, including Sally Blackwell, Annie Hill, Thomas Adolphus, Louise Wortham, Florence Abigail, and James Vance. James Merritt Sharp was born 26 September 1877. In 1900, he established Sharp Institute, a co-educational day and boarding school. The school burned down in 1907. Sharp had been s...
Price, Annie Lola, 1903-1972
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Annie Lola Price (1903–1972) was an Alabama lawyer, who was one of the first women to become licensed as an attorney in the state. She was the first woman to serve as a legal advisor for a governor in Alabama and the first woman to serve on the state's appellate court. Between 1962 and 1972, she was the presiding judge of the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals. ...
Murray, Florence Kerins, 1916-2004
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Florence K. Murray (1916–2004) was a high-ranking officer in the Women's Army Corps, the first female state senator in Rhode Island, the first female judge in Rhode Island, and the first female member of the Rhode Island Supreme Court. ...
Lillie, Mildred Loree, 1915-2002
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Mildred Loree Lillie was an American jurist. She served as a judge for 55 years in the state of California. In 1958, she became the second woman to serve on the Court of Appeal. In 1971, she was considered by President Richard Nixon for nomination as the first woman on the Supreme Court of the United States. ...
Leeds, Daphne Robert, 1908-1982
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Daphne Leeds (1908-1982) was an attorney and the first Assistant Commissioner of Patents....
Hughes, Sarah Tilghman, 1896-1985
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Sarah T. Hughes, jurist, politician, and feminist, was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on August 2, 1896, daughter of James Cooke and Elizabeth (Haughton) Tilghman. Her parents were descended from colonial families that immigrated to North America in the 1660s. She attended public schools in Baltimore and in 1917 graduated from Goucher College with an A.B. in biology. After two years of teaching science at Salem Academy, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, she enrolled in the George Washington Universit...
DuFour, Kathyrn J., 1910-2005
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Kathryn J. DuFour was the first female judge in the Maryland Circuit Courts. The law library at The Catholic University of America is named in her honor. After marrying a trial attorney and moving to Maryland, DuFour pursued law herself, graduating from the Washington College of Law at American University in 1935. In 1950 she was elected to the Montgomery County Council. In 1953 she was appointed to the Maryland General Assembly by Governor Theodore McKeldin. In 1955 she was appointed as a judge...
Driscoll, Margaret Connors, 1915?-2000
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Margaret Connors Driscoll was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, likely in 1915, and graduated in 1935 from Wellesley College. She received her law degree from Yale Law School in 1938, one of five women in the class. Judge Driscoll was heavily involved in Democratic politics and labor issues before her appointment as a judge to the Connecticut Juvenile Court in 1960. She served as chief judge -- the first woman to do so -- from 1976 to 1978. She was a judge of the Connecticut Superior Court fr...
Cleary, Catherine Blanchard, 1916-2010
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Catherine Blanchard Cleary was a graduate of the University of Wisconsin Law School and retired as CEO of First Wisconsin Trust Co. Catherine served as the last Assistant Treasurer of the United Sates in the 1950s. ...
Bañuelos, Romana Acosta, 1925-2018
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Romana Acosta Banuelos was born in Miami, Arizona, in 1925, but grew up in Mexico. She returned to the United State and became a business woman. She served as Treasurer of the United States from December 17, 1971 to February 14, 1974....
Armstrong, Anne Legendre, 1927-2008
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Anne Legendre Armstrong was a United States diplomat and politician. She was the first woman to serve as Counselor to the President and as United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom, serving in those capacities under the Ford, Nixon, and Carter administrations....
Allen, Florence Ellinwood, 1884-1966
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Florence Ellinwood Allen (March 23, 1884 – September 12, 1966) was a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. She was the first woman to serve on a state supreme court and one of the first two women to serve as a United States federal judge. In 2005, she was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame. Allen was born on March 23, 1884, in Salt Lake City, Utah, the daughter of Clarence Emir Allen Sr., a mine manager, and later United States R...
Aitchison, Beatrice, 1908-1997
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The daughter of Clyde and Bertha Williams Aitchison, Beatrice Aitchison was born in Portland, Oregon in 1908. Her mother was a musician and her father was a lawyer and economist who worked with the Interstate Commerce Commission. Aitchison graduated from Goucher College in 1928 and earned an M.A. and Ph.D. in mathematics from Johns Hopkins University in 1931 and 1933 respectively. She earned a master's degree in economics from the University of Oregon in 1937. During the 1930s, Aitchison taught ...
Younger, Mildred, 1920-
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Mildred Younger was a Los Angeles native and the daughter of a lobbyist who taught her the political ropes. She became active in the Republican Party in the late 1940s and by 1952 was a rising star who seconded the presidential nomination of then-California Gov. Earl Warren at the first televised national political convention. She married Evelle Younger. He was elected to the Superior Court in 1958, became Los Angeles County district attorney in 1964 and state attorney general in 1970. His only ...
Winston, Ellen Black, 1903-1984
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Ellen Black Winston (August 15, 1903 – June 19, 1984) was a social worker who worked to develop systems to support those who were underprivileged in North Carolina. She became the North Carolina Commissioner of Public Welfare and the first United States Commissioner of Welfare. Ellen Black Winston was born in Bryson City, North Carolina, the daughter of Stanley Warren Black and Marianna Fischer Black. She was one of five children; however, the first child was stillborn. Winston graduated from...
Willkie, Edith Wilk, 1890-1978
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Edith Wilk was a librarian from Rushville, Indiana. She married Wendell Willkie, a lawyer and presidential candidate. ...
Willis, Frances Elizabeth, 1899-1983
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Frances Elizabeth Willis was an American diplomat who served as the U.S. ambassador to Switzerland, Norway and Sri Lanka. She was the third woman to enter the U.S. Foreign Service in 1927 and the first woman to make a career of it....
Wheaton, Anne Williams, 1892-1977
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Anne Williams Wheaton (1892-1977), journalist and public relations expert, was the Assistant Director of Publicity for the Republican National Committee from 1939 to 1957. From 1957 to 1961, Wheaton was Associate Press Secretary to Dwight D. Eisenhower. ...
Webb, Electra Havemeyer, 1888-1960
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Electra Havemeyer Webb (August 16, 1888 – November 19, 1960) was a collector of American antiques and founder of the Shelburne Museum. During World War I, Electra Webb drove an ambulance in New York City, and was named Assistant Director of the Motor Corps. In 1942, during World War II, she joined the Civilian Defense Volunteer Organization, and directed the Pershing Square Civil Defense Center and its blood bank. In 1947 Electra Havemeyer Webb gathered with her friends to create Shelburne Museu...
Tynes, Harriet Louisa, 1901-1992
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Harriet Tynes was an adoption advocate and director of the Children's Home Society of North Carolina....
Thompson, Irma B., 1917-2019
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Irma Thompson was a longtime educator from Buena Vista, Virginia, first as a public school teacher for 35 years, then supervising student teachers for Mary Baldwin College....
Switzer, Mary Elizabeth, 1900-1971
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Mary Elizabeth Switzer, government official, was born on February 16, 1900, to Julius F. and Margaret (Moore) Switzer of Newton, Mass. Switzer graduated from Radcliffe College in 1921 with a B.A. in international law. She moved to Washington, D.C., where her first position with the federal government was as assistant secretary to the Minimum Wage Board. She worked for the Department of the Treasury until 1953, principally for the Public Health Service and the Federal Security Agenc...
Strauss, Anna Lord, 1899-1979
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Anna Lord Strauss, civic worker, was born in New York City on September 20, 1899, the daughter of Albert and Lucretia Mott (Lord) Strauss and the maternal great-granddaughter of the abolitionist and woman suffrage leader Lucretia Mott. She was educated in New York City and attended the New York School of Secretaries. In 1918 she became a secretary in the New York office of the Federal Reserve Board. She held several similar positions in state and federal government before joining t...
Stratton, Dorothy C. (Dorothy Constance), 1899-2006
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Dorothy Constance Stratton served as Dean of Women at Purdue from 1933 until 1946, at a time in which the enrollment of women students jumped from less than 500 to more than 1,400. During her tenure at Purdue, she oversaw the creation of a liberal science program for women in the School of Science as well as an employment placement center. She helped established the Housemother Training School that gave intensive training to fraternity and sorority housemothers from across the United States. ...
Shouse, Catherine Filene, 1896-1994
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Philanthropist and patron of the arts, Catherine (Filene) Shouse was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on June 9, 1896, the daughter of A. Lincoln and Thérèse (Weill) Filene, a founder of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. William Filene, her grandfather, was the founder of Filene's Specialty Store. Thérèse Filene founded the Boston Music Settlement in Boston's North End and helped found Boston's War Camp Community Service Entertainment Bureau, a forerunner of the United Service Organizations in the Bo...
Russell, Jane Anne, 1911-1967
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Dr. Jane Anne Russell was an endocrinologist who worked primarily at Emory University....
Roosevelt, Edith Kermit Carow, 1861-1948
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Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt was the second wife and First Lady of her childhood companion and the 26th President, Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1909). Edith Kermit Carow knew Theodore Roosevelt from infancy; as a toddler she became a playmate of his younger sister Corinne. Born in Connecticut in 1861, daughter of Charles and Gertrude Tyler Carow, she grew up in an old New York brownstone on Union Square — an environment of comfort and tradition. Throughout childhood she and “Teedie” were in and o...
Reid, Helen Rogers, 1882-1970
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Helen Rogers Reid was the first woman chair of Barnard's Board of Trustees. She served from 1947-1956 when she was made a trustee emeritus. Reid Hall on the Barnard campus is named for her. Reid Hall, in Paris, was established by Elizabeth Mills Reid, mother-in-law of Helen Rogers Reid, as a club for American women artists and intellectuals in 1893. By 1922, through the efforts of Helen Rogers Reid and Virginia Gildersleeve, it had become a residence for American university women and a center fo...
Reeves, Mildred E., 1896-1973
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Mildred Reeves was the chief of staff for Congressman Nicholas Longworth, a Republican legislator from Ohio; by 1919 Reeves was one of a number of women serving in high-ranking jobs on Capitol Hill. When Longworth became Speaker of the House in 1925, Reeves made history, becoming the first woman to ever run the Speaker’s office. She earned a juris doctorate from National University Law School while working for Longworth. In August 1928, Reeves was one of 193 people (just 14 of whom were women) ...
Prudden, Bonnie, 1914-2011
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Bonnie Prudden was an American physical fitness pioneer, rock climber and mountaineer. Her report to Eisenhower on the unfitness of American children as compared with their European counterparts led to the formation of the President's Council on Youth Fitness....
Priest, Ivy Baker, 1905-1975
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Ivy Baker Priest was born on September 7, 1905 in Kimberley, Utah. She became active in politics in the early 1930s, and joined the Young Republicans. Although she repeatedly won leadership positions in the Republican Party, she was defeated in a 1934 race for the Utah state legislature. Shortly after the legislative race, she was elected to a two-year term as co-chairman of the Young Republican organization for the eleven western states, from 1934 to 1936. From 1937 to 1939, Priest served as th...
Pace, Pearl Carter, 1896-1970
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Pearl Eagle (Carter) Pace was born in Tompkinsville, Monroe County, Kentucky on January 25, 1896. From 1917 to 1918 she was a public school teacher in the Cumberland County community of Marrowbone. Pace married Stanley Dan Pace on December 24, 1917, and they resided in Burkesville, Kentucky most of their married life. They had three children. Pace began her business career as a bookkeeper in 1924. In 1938, Pace achieved an outstanding goal: being the first woman in Kentucky to be elected to a ...
Parker, Karla V., 1894-1986
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Karla Parker was a Grand Rapids educator involved in education and educational policy at local, state, and national levels. She was the secretary of the Public Recreation Board of Grand Rapids from 1939 to 1964 and elected President of the National Congress of Parents and Teachers in 1958. She was also a member of many other programs involved with civic, youth and educational activities. ...
Sayler, Jessie Dale Dixon, 1896-1987
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Jessie Dale Dixon Sayler was born in Savannah, Georgia. She married Lieut. Henry B. Sayler of the Coast Artillery Corps. on October 6, 1917 in Savannah. She was appointed Collector of Customs in 1954, appointed by President Eisenhower she was the first female to hold the position in Savannah. Jessie was also active in many community organizations and clubs. They had three children, Henry B. Sayler, Jr., Dale Morgan (Sayler), and John M. Sayler. Both sons graduated from West Point. Jessie Dale Di...
Post, Marjorie Merriweather, 1887-1973
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Marjorie Merriweather Post (March 15, 1887 – September 12, 1973) was an American businesswoman, socialite, and philanthropist. She was also the owner of General Foods Corporation. Post used much of her fortune to collect art, particularly Imperial-era Russian art, much of which is now on display at Hillwood, the museum which was her estate in Washington, D.C. She is also known for her mansion, Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Florida....
Oettinger, Katherine Brownell, 1903-1997
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The elder daughter of Charles Leonard and Eunice (Bennet) Brownell, Katherine Brownell Oettinger was born in Nyack, New York, on September 24, 1903. Following the death of her father, the family moved to New York City, where Oettinger attended grammar school and Hunter College High School. She graduated from Smith College with honors in sociology and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in 1925; in 1926 she received a master's degree from the Smith College School for Social Work, having completed her f...
Meyer, Agnes Elizabeth Ernst, 1887-1970
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Agnes Elizabeth Ernst, journalist, author, and lecturer, was born in New York City. In 1910 she married Eugene Meyer, a financier who purchased The Washington Post in 1933. The Meyers lived in Mount Kisco, New York, and Washington, D.C., where Agnes Meyer was active in government service and social reform. ...
Marshall, Mary Louise, 1893-1986
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Mary Louise Marshall (1893 - 1986) was Librarian and Professor of Medical Bibliography at Tulane University School of Medicine, and the longest-running president of the Medical Library Association (1941–46)....
Lord, Mary Pillsbury, 1904-1978
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Mary Stinson Pillsbury Lord (1904-1978) was heir to the Pillsbury flour fortune, who devoted her life's work to public health and social welfare. During her career she held chairmanships of many national committees. As chair of the Civilian Advisory Committee for the Women's Army Corps (WAC), Lord traveled extensively throughout Europe and the Middle East, touring WAC installations and studying the needs of WACs. She also helped with legislation that made the Women's Army Corps part of the U.S. ...
Longworth, Alice Roosevelt, 1884-1980
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Aice Roosevelt Longworth (February 12, 1884 – February 20, 1980) was the eldest child of U.S. president Theodore Roosevelt. Longworth led an unconventional and controversial life. She was married to US Representative Nicholas Longworth III; her only child, Paulina, was from her affair with Senator William Borah. She published her memoir, Crowded Hours, in 1933....
Leopold, Alice Koller, 1906-1982
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Alice Koller Leopold (May 9, 1906 in Scranton, Pennsylvania – 1982) was an American politician, social activist, and government official. She served as Secretary of the State of Connecticut from 1951 to 1953 and as Director of the United States Women's Bureau from 1953 to 1961. Alice Koller was the daughter of E. Leonard Koller (1872-1953) and Leonora Edwards Koller (1881-1942). She graduated from Goucher College in Towson, Maryland in 1927, double-majoring in English and economics. After a t...
Lengfeld, Helen, 1898-1986
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Helen Lengfeld was a champion golfer from California. Lengfeld helped found the Women’s Golf Association of Northern California in 1926. Renowned as a philanthropist and humanitarian, Lengfeld was also active in sponsoring some of the tournaments that would lead to the creation of the Ladies Professional Golf Association. In 1949, she published the Golfer Magazine, which later became the National Golfer. ...
Lee, Frances Marron, 1902-1990
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Frances Marron Lee came from a prominent family in Albuquerque. She got her bachelors degree from the University of California at Berkeley and married Floyd Lee; in the 1930s, the Lees bought the Floyd Lee Ranch. She was elected and served several terms as National Committee Women of the Republican Party. She also served on the Board of Regents at the University of New Mexico and chaired the Grants Municipal and Consolidated School Board. She was very active in 4-H Clubs, and was instrumental i...
Lee, Dorothy McCullough, 1901-1981
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Dorothy McCullough was born on April 1, 1901, in Oakland, California. She lived in various parts of the United States and in several foreign countries where her father, a naval officer, was stationed. She received the B.A. degree from the University of California (Berkeley) in 1921 and the J.D. degree two years later. In January 1923 DML was admitted to the California bar and practiced law in San Francisco until July 1924, when she married W. Scott Lee and moved to Portlan...
Hilton, Helen LeBaron, 1910-1993
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Helen LeBaron Hilton was born February 28, 1910, in Morrisville, Vermont, the only child of W.I and Ida (Norton) LeBaron. She graduated in 1932 from the University of Vermont earning a Bachelor of Science, received a Master of Science degree in 1938 from Cornell University and was awarded the degree Doctor of Philosophy in 1946 from the University of Chicago. In 1946, the University of Vermont conferred upon her the honorary degree, Doctor of Science. After three years of teaching home economi...
Laws, Ruth Mitchell, 1912-2010
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Dr. Ruth Mitchell Laws was the first female in the United States to earn a doctorate in Administration and Supervision. She was also the first minority professional to gain employment at the former Delaware Department of Education. Laws was Head of the Home Economics Department at Deleware State College. She served as Secretary for the Delaware division, US Commission on Civil Rights. ...
Howard, Katherine Graham, 1898-1986
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Katherine G. Howard (1898-1986) was born in Guyton, Georgia, also spending childhood years in North Carolina. Howard attended private girls' schools in North Carolina; Salem Academy and Salem College, where she majored in fine arts. She completed her bachelors degree at Smith College in Massachusetts, where she majored in politics and government. In 1921 she married Charles P. Howard, an attorney, who maintained a Boston Law practice and served periodically in a variety of public service posts. ...
Houghton, Dorothy Deemer, 1890-1972
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Dorothy Deemer Houghton was born in Red Oak, Iowa in 1890. Her mother was an active club-woman and her father a justice on the Iowa Supreme Court. Houghton graduated from Wellesley College and married Hiram Cole Houghton in 1912. She began her public life as a member of the Monday Federated Women's Club in Red Oak, then became president of the Iowa Federation of Women's Clubs, and also the national leader of the General Federation of Women's Clubs. Houghton served on the Iowa Board of Educatio...
Hottel, Althea Krantz, 1907-2000
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Dr. Althea Kratz Hottel was a noted champion of higher education and education for women. At the University of Pennsylvania she served as Directress of Women from 1936 to 1943, Dean of Women 1943 to 1959, Lecturer of Sociology 1936 to 1959, and was a Trustee from 1959 to 1969. She was born on October 16, 1907 in Lansdale, Pennsylvania to Clarence M. and Nettie H. Kratz. From the University of Pennsylvania she earned a B.S. in Education in 1929. As an undergraduate she was president of the Wom...
Heffelfinger, Elizabeth Bradley, 1900-1981
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Elizabeth Heffelfinger was a prominent political figure who served on the Republican National Committee, among other posts. She also served as Pres. Eisenhower's delegate to the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and was involved in other international activities. Her husband was F. Peavey Heffelfinger, a Republican National Committeeman and executive of Minneapolis-based Peavey Co....
Hayes, Helen, 1900-1993
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Helen Hayes Brown was born in Washington, D.C. on October 10, 1900. Her parents were Frank and Catherine “Essie” Brown. With her mother’s encouragement, Hayes made her stage debut at the age of five and began performing both in amateur productions as well as the stock company, The Columbia Players. While performing in a recital for Miss Minnie Hawke’s School of Dance, Hayes was spotted by Lew Fields. Fields, half of the Weber and Fields comedy team, as well as a producer, recognized Hayes’s tale...
Hawkes, Anna Lorette Rose, 1890-1978
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Anna L. Rose Hawkes was an university dean at Mills College and president of the American Association of University Women....
Hahn, Lorena B., -1986
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Lorena B. Hahn was from Nebraska. She served as the National President of the American Legion Auxiliary and as U.S. Representative on the United Nations Status of Women Commission....
Gunderson, Barbara Bates, 1917-2007
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Barbara Bates Gunderson was a journalist from Rapid City, South Dakota. She married Robert W. Gunderson. In 1951 she began as a volunteer for the nomination of Dwight D. Eisenhower and became Republican National Committeewoman thereafter. She resigned her second term of that Party office when President Eisenhower appointed her as one of the first women on the Civil Service Commission. Mrs. Gunderson resided in Washington for two and a half years as one of the three-member governing board of the ...
Graham, Martha, 1894-1991
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Martha Graham, a pioneer in the establishment of American modern dance, was one of the principal choreographers of the twentieth century. Her work, which spanned more than seven decades, resulted in the development of a movement technique and a body of 180 choreographic works. Known also for her innovative collaborations, Graham worked with sculptor Isamu Noguchi, who created over thirty-five designs for Graham works; lighting designer Jean Rosenthal; costume designer Halston; and many composers...
Goodykoontz, Bess, 1894-1990
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Bess Goodykoontz (1894-1990) was born in Waukon, Iowa. She earned bachelors and master's degrees in education from the University of Iowa. Following her studies, Goodykoontz taught at schools in rural Iowa as well as the experimental school at the University of Iowa before serving as supervisor of elementary schools in Green Bay, Wisconsin. In 1929, President Herbert Hoover appointed her Assistant U.S. Commissioner of Education, a position that she held in the Bureau of Education for the next...
Gloeckner, Mary Louise Carpenter, 1904-1978
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Mary Louise Carpenter Gloeckner, born in Philadelphia, 26 August 1904. She received her M.D. from the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania. She practiced general medicine in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania and was active in a variety of local, state, and national medical organizations, including as the the first woman Vice-President of the American Medical Association. Dr. Gloeckner retired from practice and most of her organizational activities in 1975. She died 4 November 1978. ...
Gifford, Selene, 1901-1979
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Selene Gifford (May 30, 1901 – July 21, 1979) was an American social worker, and an international and federal government official. She spent most of her federal career with the Bureau of Indian Affairs....
Espenschade, Anna Scholl, 1903-1998
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Anna Scholl Espenschade was a professor of physical education at University of California, Berkeley. She worked on tracking motor development among children. In 1924, she obtained her bachelor's degree in Spanish from Goucher College in Baltimore, Md. She went on to Wellesley College and gained a master's degree in hygiene and physical education . In 1939, she received a PhD in psychology from UC Berkeley. Espenschade was on the advisory board of the President's Council on Youth Fitness, establi...
Enochs, Elisabeth Randolph Shirley, 1895-1992
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Elisabeth Randolph Shirley Enochs (15 August 1890–23 January 1992) was born in Indian Territory, which later became part of Oklahoma. She was a teacher and journalist. During War Department during World War I she was as a linguist in the War Department; during World War II, she was a War Department translator. Mrs. Enochs began her government career in 1927 as a writer with the old U.S. Children's Bureau. From 1942 to 1951, she directed its international cooperation division. She then joined wha...
Eliot, Martha M. (Martha May), 1891-1978
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Martha May Eliot (April 7, 1891 – February 14, 1978), was a foremost pediatrician and specialist in public health, an assistant director for WHO, and an architect of New Deal and postwar programs for maternal and child health. Her first important research, community studies of rickets in New Haven, Connecticut, and Puerto Rico, explored issues at the heart of social medicine. Together with Edwards A. Park, her research established that public health measures (dietary supplementation with vitamin...
Dulles, Clover Todd, 1894-1974
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Clover Todd Dulles (b. March 5, 1894, New York, N.Y.-d. April 15, 1974, Washington, D.C.) was the wife of Allen Welsh Dulles, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency from 1953 to 1961. They married on Oct. 16, 1920, in Baltimore, Maryland. She never used her given first name, Martha, but was called Clover. ...
Donlon, Mary Honor, 1893-1977
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Mary Donlon was a lawyer and alumna of Cornell University. President Eisenhower appointed Donlon as a U.S. Customs Court Judge....
Davie, Eugenie Mary, 1895-1975
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Eugenie Mary Davie (January 31, 1895 – September 19, 1975) was a Republican activist in New York City and a director of the Pioneer Fund....
Crowninshield, Louise du Pont, 1877-1958
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Louise Evelina du Pont (1877-1958) was the daughter of Henry A. du Pont (1838-1926) and Pauline Foster du Pont (1849-1902). She was born, raised, and educated at the family estate, Winterthur, north of Wilmington, Delaware. A debutante whose coming-out party was held in New York in 1896, she socialized with members of the city's most exclusive families. During the late 1890s, she spent the winter months in the city, enjoying shopping and social life during the heyday of high society. Louise du ...
Cornell, Katharine, 1893-1974
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Katharine Cornell was born on February 16, 1893, in Berlin, where her father, Peter Cortelyou Cornell, a distant relation of Cornell University founder Ezra Cornell, was studying medicine. Later in 1893, Peter Cornell and his wife Alice Gardner Plimpton returned to their native city, Buffalo, New York with their daughter, Katharine. Her father practiced medicine in Buffalo, for several years, but he found his time and interest increasingly taken up with the family hobby. His father, S. Douglas C...
Chandler, Dorothy Buffum, 1901-1997
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Dorothy Buffum Chandler (also known as Buff) was born in Lafayette, IL, on May 19, 1901; her parents moved to Long Beach, CA, when she was one year old and her father opened a store, the forerunner of Buffum's department store chain. She attended Stanford and then married Norman Chandler, son of Los Angeles Times owner Harry Chandler, in 1922. Chandler worked for the Times corporation in several capacities notably as the director of Times Mirror. She was a supporter of the arts spearheaded the f...
Cermak, Albina Rose, 1904-1978
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Albina Rose Cermak (1904-1978) was a leader in Cleveland Republican Party activities and civic affairs. Born in Cleveland, she was the daughter of Frank J. and Rose Cermak, a Republican precinct committeeman and a suffragette, respectively. Albina Cermak was educated at St. Agnes School, Clark School, Lincold High School, and was for a brief time enrolled as a nurse trainee at Mt. Sinai Hospital, until her mother's ill health forced her to quit that course of study to become a bookkeeper, sec...
Cahn, Gladys Dena Freeman, 1901-1964
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Chicago-born Gladys Dena Freeman (March 19, 1901-April 13, 1964) married Moise S. Cahn and spent most of her life in New Orleans, Louisiana. They had a daughter and a son. Gladys Freeman Cahn worked for social welfare and civil rights, both locally and nationally. She served as national president of the National Council of Jewish Women from 1949-1955. She was also affiliated with the Louisiana Civil Liberties Union, U.N.E.S.C.O., the national Urban League, the Louisiana Conference of Social Welf...
Cronkhite, Bernice Brown, 1893-1983
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Bernice Brown Cronkhite was born in Calais, Maine in 1893 and after the death of her mother in 1896, was brought up with her older brother, by her father and aunt. She attended schools in Providence, Rhode Island and following graduation from high school taught school in Tiverton for one year. She attended Radcliffe, 1912-1916, because of its course offerings in government and law and received a "distant work" scholarship because she came from a city outside of Boston. While at Radcliffe for rea...
Boggs, Elizabeth Monroe, 1913-1996
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Elizabeth Monroe Boggs (1913-1996), educator, scientist, civil advocate, and lobbyist, was a co-founder of the National Association of Retarded Children (The Arc) and later its President. She was a leader in the drafting and lobbying for disability rights legislation and a member of the President's Panel on Mental Retardation and later the President's Committee on Mental Retardation during the Kennedy Administration. ...
Blyley, Katherine Gillette, 1901-1961
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Katherine Gillette Blyley became first female president of Keuka College in 1947; she was one of the first female presidents of a college in the United States....
Felton, Rebecca Latimer, 1835-1930
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Rebecca Ann Latimer Felton (June 10, 1835 – January 24, 1930) was an American writer, lecturer, reformer, and politician who became the first woman to serve in the US Senate, although she served for only one day. She was the most prominent woman in Georgia in the Progressive Era, and was honored by appointment to the Senate. She was sworn in November 21, 1922, and served just 24 hours. At 87 years, nine months, and 22 days old, she was the oldest freshman senator to enter the Senate. She was the...
Caraway, Hattie Wyatt, 1878-1950
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Hattie Ophelia Wyatt Caraway (February 1, 1878 – December 21, 1950) was an American politician who became the first woman elected to serve a full term as a United States Senator. Caraway represented Arkansas. She was the first woman to preside over the Senate. She won reelection to a full term in 1932 with the active support of fellow Senator Huey Long, of neighboring Louisiana. She was the first woman to win a election for the United States Senate. A native of Humphreys County, Tennessee, Ha...
Graves, Dixie Bibb, 1882-1965
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Dixie Bibb Graves (July 26, 1882 – January 21, 1965) was a First Lady from the State of Alabama and the first woman to serve as a United States Senator from Alabama. She was appointed to the Senate by her husband, Governor Bibb Graves, when Senator Hugo Black resigned his to take his place on the U.S. Supreme Court in August 1937. She was a member of the Democratic Party. Born on her family's plantation outside of Montgomery, Alabama, Dixie Bibb attended the local public schools. In 1900, at ...
Pyle, Gladys, 1890-1989
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Gladys Shields Pyle (October 4, 1890 – March 14, 1989) was an American politician and the first woman elected to the United States Senate without having previously been appointed to her position. The first female senator to serve as a Republican, Pyle was also the first female senator from South Dakota. Born in Huron, South Dakota, Pyle attended Huron College in her hometown, graduating with a liberal arts degree with a music emphasis in 1911. She moved to Chicago, taking graduate courses at ...
Bushfield, Vera Cahalan, 1889-1976
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Vera Cahalan Bushfield (August 9, 1889 – April 16, 1976) was a U.S. Senator from South Dakota briefly in 1948, as well as the First Lady of South Dakota from 1939 to 1943. Bushfield's election also marked the first time a state had been represented by two female senators; Gladys Pyle served for two months in late 1938 and early 1939. Bushfield was a member of the Republican Party. Born in Miller, South Dakota, she attended the public schools before graduating with a degree in domestic science...
Bowring, Eva, 1892-1985
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Eva Kelly Bowring (January 9, 1892 – January 8, 1985) was a rancher and U.S. Senator from Nebraska. She was a member of the Republican Party. Born Eva Kelly in Nevada, Missouri, she attended school in Kansas City, Missouri. In 1911, at age 19, she married Theodore Forester, a grain and feed salesman. After her husband's death in 1924, Eva Forester moved to Lincoln, Nebraska, and took up her husband's work selling livestock feed. She remarried in 1928 to Arthur Bowring, who had served as count...
Robertson, Alice, 1854-1931
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Alice Mary Robertson (January 2, 1854 – July 1, 1931) was an American educator, social worker, government official, and politician who became the second woman to serve in the United States Congress, and the first from the state of Oklahoma. Robertson was the first woman to defeat an incumbent congressman. She was known for her strong personality, commitment to Native American issues, and anti-feminist stance. Born at the Tullahassee Mission in Creek Nation, Indian Territory, Robertson attende...
Norton, Mary Teresa, 1875-1959
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Mary Teresa Norton (née Hopkins, March 7, 1875 – August 2, 1959) was an American Democratic Party politician who represented Jersey City and Bayonne in the United States House of Representatives from 1925 to 1951. Born in Jersey City, New Jersey, she attended parochial schools and Jersey City High School before graduating from Packard Business College, New York City in 1896. She worked as a secretary and stenographer until she married Robert Francis Norton in April 1909. As part of the healin...
Douglas, Emily Taft, 1899-1994
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Emily Taft Douglas (April 10, 1899 – January 28, 1994) was a Democratic Party politician from the U.S. state of Illinois. She served as a U.S. Representative at-large from 1945 until 1947 and was married to U.S. Senator Paul Douglas from 1931 until his death in 1976. She was the first female Democrat elected to Congress from Illinois, and her election made Illinois one of the first two states to have been represented by female House members from both parties. Born Emily Taft in Chicago, Illin...
Thompson, Ruth, 1887-1970
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Ruth Thompson (September 15, 1887 – April 5, 1970) was a Republican politician from the U.S. state of Michigan. A lawyer by profession, she served three terms in the United States House of Representatives from 1951 to 1957. Born in Whitehall, Michigan, she graduated from Muskegon Business College of nearby Muskegon in 1905. Beginning in 1918, she worked in a law office and studied law in night school for six years before she was admitted to the bar in 1924, becoming the first female lawyer i...
Douglas, Helen Gahagan, 1900-1980
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Helen Gahagan Douglas (November 25, 1900 – June 28, 1980) was an American actress and politician. Her career included success on Broadway, as a touring opera singer, and the starring role in the 1935 movie She, in which her portrayal of the villain inspired Disney's Evil Queen in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937). Born Helen Mary Gahagan in Boonton, New Jersey and raised in the Park Slope area of Brooklyn, New York, she graduated from the prestigious Berkeley School for Girls and at the ...
St. George, Katharine, 1894-1983
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Katharine Price Collier St. George (July 12, 1894 – May 2, 1983) was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from New York, and a cousin of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Born Katharine Delano Price Collier in Bridgnorth, England and raised in Tuxedo Park, New York, she was later schooled in France, Switzerland, and Germany. In April 1917, Katharine Collier married George St. George who, by 1919, operated a wholesale coal brokerage on Wall Street. Katharine St....
Bosone, Reva Beck, 1895-1983
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Reva Zilpha Beck Bosone (April 2, 1895 – July 21, 1983) was an American attorney and politician. She was a U.S. Representative from Utah. She was the first woman elected to Congress from Utah. Born in American Fork in the Utah Territory, the daughter of a Danish immigrant father, Bosone attended public schools and graduated from high school in 1915. She graduated from Westminster Junior College in 1917 and from the University of California at Berkeley in 1919. She taught high school 1920–1927...
Church, Marguerite Stitt, 1892-1990
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Marguerite Stitt Church (September 13, 1892 – May 26, 1990) was an American psychologist and politician who represented Illinois' 13th congressional district from 1951 to 1963. She was a member of the Republican Party. Born Marguerite Stitt in New York City, she attended St. Agatha School in New York City before earning an AB in psychology with a minor in economics and sociology from Wellesley College in 1914. After graduation, she taught a biblical history course at Wellesley for a year befo...
Farrington, Elizabeth P. (Elizabeth Pruett), 1898-1984
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Mary Elizabeth Pruett Farrington (May 30, 1898 – July 21, 1984), more commonly known as Elizabeth P. Farrington, was publisher of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin and an American stateswoman who served as delegate to the United States Congress for the Territory of Hawai'i from 1954 to 1957. She was a member of the Republican Party. Born in Tokyo to American parents on May 30, 1898, she attended Tokyo Foreign School before moving back to the United States. She attended grammar schools in Nashville, ...
Granahan, Kathryn Elizabeth, 1894-1979
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Kathryn Elizabeth Granahan (December 7, 1894 – July 10, 1979) was an American politician. A member of the Democratic Party, she was the first woman to be elected to the United States Congress from Philadelphia. After leaving the House, she served as the 32nd Treasurer of the United States. Born Kathryn Elizabeth O'Hay in Easton, Pennsylvania, she graduated from Easton High School and Mount St. Joseph Collegiate Institute (later Chestnut Hill College) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She became...
Green, Edith, 1910-1987
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Edith Louise Starrett Green (January 17, 1910 – April 21, 1987) was an American politician and educator from Oregon. A member of the Democratic Party, she was the second woman to be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Oregon, serving a total of ten terms, from 1955 to 1974. Born Edith Louise Starrett in Trent, South Dakota, her family moved to Oregon in 1916, where she attended schools in Salem, attending Willamette University from 1927 to 1929. She worked as a schoolteacher and...
Harden, Cecil M. (Cecil Murray), 1894-1984
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Cecil Murray Harden (November 21, 1894 – December 5, 1984) was an American educator who became a Republican politician and an advocate of women's rights. She served five terms in the U.S. Representative (January 3, 1949 to January 3, 1959) representing Indiana's 6th congressional district. Harden was the only Republican woman elected to represent Indiana in the U.S. Congress until 2012, when Susan Brooks and Jackie Walorski were elected to serve in the 113th United States Congress beginning in J...
Kahn, Florence P. (Florence Prag), 1866-1948
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Florence Prag Kahn (November 9, 1866 – November 16, 1948) was an American teacher and politician who in 1925 became the first Jewish woman to serve in the United States Congress. She was only the fifth woman to serve in Congress, and the second from California, after fellow San Franciscan Mae Nolan. Like Nolan, she took the seat in the House of Representatives left vacant by the death of her husband, Julius Kahn. Born Florence Prag in Salt Lake City to Polish-Jewish immigrant parents, her fam...
Jenckes, Virginia Ellis, 1877-1975
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Virginia Ellis Jenckes (November 6, 1877 – January 9, 1975) served three terms as a U.S. Representative (March 4, 1933 – January 3, 1939) from Indiana's Sixth Congressional District. The Terre Haute, Indiana, native was the first woman from Indiana to be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. Alongside Kathryn O'Loughlin McCarthy, she was the second woman Representative from the Midwest and the first who was not succeeding a male relative. Born Virginia Ellis Soames in Terre Haute, Ind...
Knutson, Cornelia Gjesdal, 1912-1996
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Cornelia Genevive Gjesdal "Coya" Knutson (née Gjesdal; August 22, 1912 – October 10, 1996) was an American teacher, farmer, businesswoman, and politician from the U.S. state of Minnesota. She served two terms in the Minnesota House of Representatives, from 1951 to 1955, before winning election to the U.S. House of Representatives from Minnesota's 9th congressional district as a member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL). She served two terms there, in the 84th and 85th Congresses, from Ja...
Nolan, Mae Ella, 1886-1973
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Mae Ella Nolan (September 20, 1886 – July 9, 1973) was an American politician who became the fourth woman to serve in the United States Congress, the first woman elected to Congress from California, the first woman to chair a Congressional committee, the first Catholic woman to hold a seat in the House, and first to fill the seat left vacant by her husband's death. Born Mae Ella Hunt in San Francisco, she attended the public schools in San Francisco, St. Vincent’s Convent, and Ayers Business ...
Oldfield, Pearl Peden, 1876-1962
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Pearl Peden Oldfield (December 2, 1876 – April 12, 1962) was an American politician. A member of the Democratic Party, she was the first woman elected to Congress from Arkansas. Born Fannie Pearl Peden in Cotton Plant, Arkansas, she attended Arkansas College in Batesville. In 1901 she married William Allan Oldfield, a Spanish-American War veteran, lawyer, and district attorney for Izard County, Arkansas. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1908 and went on to win election t...
Pratt, Ruth Sears Baker, 1877-1965
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Ruth Baker Pratt (August 24, 1877 – August 23, 1965) was an American philanthropist and politician. A member of the Republican Party, she was the first female representative to be elected from New York. Born Ruth Sears Baker in Ware, Massachusetts, she attended Dana Hall and studied mathematics at Wellesley College. She also spent a year and a half studying violin at the Conservatory of Liège, Belgium. In 1903, she married John Teele Pratt, a corporate attorney, philanthropist, music impresar...
Boland, Veronica Grace, 1899-1982
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Veronica Grace Boland (March 18, 1899 – June 19, 1982) was an American politician. A member of the Democratic Party, she was the first woman from Pennsylvania to serve in the United States Congress. Born Veronica Grace Barrett in Scranton, Pennsylvania, she graduated from the Scranton Technical High School in 1918. She later married Patrick J. Boland, a carpenter and building contractor. After being elected to Scranton’s city council and school board and serving as Lackawanna County commissio...
Buchanan, Vera Daerr, 1902-1955
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Vera Daerr Buchanan (July 20, 1902 – November 26, 1955) was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania from 1951 to 1955. She was the first female member of the U.S. Congress to ever die while holding office, and she and her husband, who had also died in office, were the first congressional wife and husband to both die while still in office. Born Vera Daerr in Wilson, Pennsylvania (later part of Clairton), she was a student of the public and parochial schools i...
Eslick, Willa McCord Blake, 1878-1961
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Willa McCord Blake Eslick (September 8, 1878 – February 18, 1961) was an American civic activist and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, she was the first woman to represent Tennessee in the United States Congress, serving in the U.S. House of Representatives from August 1932 to March 1933. Born Willa McCord Blake in Fayetteville, Tennessee, she attended private schools, Dick White College and Milton College in Fayetteville, Winthrop Model School and Peabody College in Nashville, Te...
Fulmer, Willa Lybrand, 1884-1968
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Willa Lybrand Fulmer (February 3, 1884 – May 13, 1968) was a farmer, legislative aide, and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, she served as a U.S. Representative from South Carolina from November 1944 to January 1945. Born Willa Essie Lybrand in Wagener, South Carolina, she attended the Wagener public schools before graduating from Greenville (Baptist) Female College in Greenville, South Carolina, which eventually merged with Furman University. In 1901, at age 17, she married Hamp...
Gasque, Elizabeth Hawley, 1886-1989
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Elizabeth Gasque Van Exem (February 26, 1886 – November 2, 1989), named Elizabeth Hawley Gasque during her tenure in Congress, was an American author, lecturer, farmer, and politician. She was the first woman elected to Congress from South Carolina, serving in the U.S. House of Representatives from September 1938 to January 1939. Born Elizabeth Mills Hawley near Blythewood, South Carolina was a member of the southern aristocracy and spent her childhood on the expansive “Rice Creek” plantation...
Gibbs, Florence Reville, 1890-1964
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Florence Reville Gibbs (April 4, 1890 – August 19, 1964) was an American politician. A member of the Democratic Party, she was the first woman to represent Georgia in the United States House of Representatives, serving for three months from October 3, 1940 to January 3, 1941. Born Florence Reville in Thomson, Georgia, she grew up there, attending public schools before graduating from Brenau College in Gainesville, Georgia. She married Willis Benjamin Gibbs, a Georgia attorney and politician; ...
Honeyman, Nan Wood, 1881-1970
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Nan Wood Honeyman (July 15, 1881 – December 10, 1970) was an American politician. A member of the Democratic Party, she was the first woman elected to the United States Congress from Oregon in 1936, serving in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1937 to 1939. Born Nan Wood in West Point, New York, she grew up in Portland, Oregon, attending private schools before graduating from St. Helen’s Hall in 1898. She later attended the Finch School in New York City for three years, where she studied...
Huck, Winnifred Sprague Mason, 1882-1936
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Winnifred Mason Huck (September 14, 1882 – August 24, 1936) was an American journalist and politician from the state of Illinois who became the third woman to serve in the United States Congress, after Jeannette Rankin and Alice Mary Robertson, the first woman to represent Illinois in Congress, the first woman to win a special election for the United States Congress, and the first mother. She was elected to fill the at-large seat of her father, Representative William Ernest Mason, after his deat...
Langley, Katherine Gudger, c. 1888-1948
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Katherine Emeline Gudger Langley (c. February 14, 1888 – August 15, 1948) was an American politician. The first woman elected to Congress from Kentucky, she served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Kentucky between 1927 and 1931. She was the wife of Kentucky Congressman John W. Langley and daughter of James M. Gudger, Jr., a four-term Congressman from North Carolina. Born Katherine Emeline Gudger in Madison County, North Carolina, she graduated from the Woman's College, Ri...
Lusk, Georgia L. (Georgia Lee), 1893-1971
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Georgia Lee Witt Lusk (May 12, 1893 – January 5, 1971) was asn American educator, politician, and public servant. She was the first female member of Congress from New Mexico, representing the state in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1947 to 1949. Born Georgia Lee Witt on a ranch near Carlsbad, New Mexico, she graduated from Carlsbad High School in 1912 before attending Highlands University in Las Vegas, New Mexico and Colorado State Teachers College (now the University of North Colorad...
McMillan, Clara Gooding, 1894-1976
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Clara Gooding McMillan (August 17, 1894 – November 8, 1976) was an American politician and government official. She represented South Carolina in Congress as a U.S. Representative from November 1939 to January 1941. Born Clara E. Gooding in Brunson, South Carolina, she attended the public schools, Confederate Home College in Charleston, South Carolina, and Flora Macdonald College in Red Springs, North Carolina. She married Thomas Sanders McMillan, a lawyer who served in the South Carolina hou...
McCarthy, Kathryn Ellen O'Loughlin, 1894-1952
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Kathryn Ellen O'Loughlin (April 24, 1894 – January 16, 1952) was an American lawyer, rancher, businesswoman, and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, she was the first woman elected to Congress from Kansas, serving as a U.S. Representative from 1933 to 1935. After her election, she was married to Daniel M. McCarthy, and thereupon served under the name of Kathryn O'Loughlin McCarthy. Born near Hays, Kansas, O'Loughlin attended rural schools. She graduated from the Hays High School in ...
Pratt, Eliza Jane, 1902-1981
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Eliza Jane Pratt (1902-1981) was a newspaper editor, congressional staff assistant, and member of the U.S. House of Representatives. She was the first woman to represent North Carolina in Congress. Born in Morven, North Carolina, March 5, 1902, she attended Queens College and Kings Business College in Charlotte, N.C. and Temple Secretarial School in Washington, D.C. Following school, she became the editor of the Montgomerian, a Troy, N.C. newspaper, before working as a congressional aide to sev...
Stanley, Winifred Claire, 1909-1996
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Winifred Claire Stanley (August 14, 1909 – February 29, 1996) was an American politician and attorney from New York affiliated with the Republican Party. Stanley is known for her vigorous women's rights advocacy during the WWII war time period, her work as a prosecutor, and for being the first female assistant district attorney in Erie County. Although Stanley served only one term before her constituency was redistricted, she used her legislative standing to champion peacetime demobilization and...
Sumner, Jessie, 1898-1994
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Jessie Sumner (July 17, 1898 – August 10, 1994) was an American lawyer, banker, and politician. A member of the Republican Party, she served as U.S. Representative from Illinois from 1939 to 1947. Born in Milford, Illinois, Sumner attended the public schools there before graduating from Girton School, Winnetka, Illinois, in 1916 and Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, in 1920. She studied law at the University of Chicago Law School, Columbia University, New York City, and Oxford Univer...
Wingo, Effiegene Locke, 1883-1962
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Effiegene Locke Wingo (April 13, 1883 – September 19, 1962) was a legislative aide and politician. A member of the Democratic Pasrty, she served as U.S. Representative from Arkansas following the death of her husband, Otis Theodore Wingo, serving from November 1930 to March 1933. Born Effiegene Locke in Lockesburg in Sevier County in southwestern Arkansas, she attended public and private schools and Union Female College in Oxford, Mississippi before graduating from Maddox Seminary in Little R...
Woodhouse, Chase Going, 1890-1984
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Chase Going Woodhouse (March 3, 1890 – December 12, 1984) was a prominent feminist leader, suffragist, and educator. She served as a member of the United States House of Representatives representing the Second Congressional District of Connecticut, becoming the second Congresswoman from Connecticut, the first elected as a Democrat, and the first woman born outside the United States in either chamber of the U.S. Congress. Born Chase Going to American parents in Victoria, British Columbia, Cana...
O'Day, Caroline, 1875-1943
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Caroline Love Goodwin O'Day (June 22, 1869 – January 4, 1943) was an American politician. A member of the Democratic Party, she served four terms in the U.S. House of Representatives. Born Caroline Love Goodwin on a plantation in Perry, Georgia, she graduated from the Lucy Cobb Institute in Athens, Georgia, and for eight years studied art in Paris (with James McNeill Whistler), Munich, and Holland, and briefly at the Cooper Union. In 1902 she married Daniel T. O’Day, son of a Standard Oil Com...
Simpson, Edna O. (Edna Oakes), 1891-1984
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Edna Oakes Simpson (October 26, 1891 – May 15, 1984) was an American politician. A member of the Republican Party, she served in the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois from 1959 to 1961. Born Edna Borman in Fieldon, Illinois, she married Sidney Simpson, an automobile dealer and longtime GOP chairman of Greene County, in western Illinois. In 1942 Sid Simpson was elected as a Republican to the House of Representatives for a seat encompassing Greene County and 13 other counties situated...
Rogers, Edith Nourse, 1881-1960
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Edith Nourse Rogers (March 19, 1881 – September 10, 1960) was an American social welfare volunteer and politician who served in the United States Congress. She was the first woman elected to Congress from Massachusetts. Born in Saco, Maine, her parents' affluence allowed Edith Nourse to be privately tutored until she was fourteen. She then attended and graduated from Rogers Hall School, a private boarding school for girls in Lowell, Massachusetts, and Madame Julien's School, a finishing schoo...
Abernathy, Ruth, 1908-1987
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Ruth Abernathy (1908-1987) was Professor of Health and Physical Education for Women at the University of Washington. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Oklahoma then went on to receive her Master of Arts (1931) and her PhD (1943) from Columbia University. She was president of the American Association for Health, Physical Education and Recreation from 1954-1956 and was a recipient of their award, the Gulick Award, in 1965. She was also professor and chairman of the De...
Adkins, Bertha Sheppard, 1906-1983
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Bertha Sheppard Adkins (1906-1983) was a graduate of Wellesley College and later served as Dean of Women at Western Maryland College, Westminster, Maryland from 1934 to 1942. From 1948 to 1958 Adkins served with the Republican National Committee, and from 1958 to 1960 she served as Under Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. She served in the Nixon White House as a Special Assistant on President Nixon's Advisory Committee on Social Security. During 1971, she served as Vice Chairman at the...
Bailey, Consuelo Northrop, 1899-1976
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Consuelo Northrop was born in Fairfield, Vermont, October 10, 1899. Consuelo graduated from St. Albans High School in 1917, at which time she, her sisters, and their Mother moved to Burlington, where she attended the University of Vermont. She graduated in 1921, and taught for one year in the Shelburne School. In the fall of 1922, Consuelo began her law studies at Boston University, graduating with an L.L.B. in 1925. Consuelo returned to Burlington and prepared for the Vermont Bar Exam while wor...
Baumgartner, Leona, 1902-1991
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Leona Baumgartner (1902-1991), A.B., 1923, University of Kansas; M.A., 1925, University of Kansas; Ph.D., 1932, Yale University; M.D., 1934, Yale University, was the first female Commissioner of Public Health for New York City, 1954 to 1962, and later became an Assistant Director of the Agency for International Development (AID), a position she held until 1965. She was named Visiting Professor of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Boston, in 1966, where she served until her retirement in...
Beech, Olive Ann, 1903-1993
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Olive Ann Beech (September 25, 1903 – July 6, 1993) was an American aerospace businesswoman who was the co-founder, president, and chairwoman of the Beech Aircraft Corporation. She founded the company in 1932 with her husband, Walter Beech, and a team of three others. She earned more awards, honorary appointments, and special citations than any other woman in aviation history and was often referred to as the “First Lady of Aviation”....
