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Pfost, Gracie Bowers, 1906-1965
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Gracie Bowers Pfost (March 12, 1906 – August 11, 1965) was an American businesswoman and politician. She was the first woman to represent Idaho in the United States Congress, serving five terms as a Democrat in the House of Representatives from 1953 to 1963. Born Gracier Bowers in an Ozark Mountain log cabin in Harrison, Arkansas, Pfost was five when her parents moved to a farm near Boise, Idaho, in 1911. She quit Meridian High School at 16 in 1922 and worked as a milk analyst at a dairy in N...
