Ruth H. Loomis papers, 1925-1989.

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Ruth H. Loomis papers, 1925-1989.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/62590091

The Ruth H. Loomis Papers contain photocopies of newspaper and magazine articles, an oral history interview, reprints of photographs of Loomis's family with Nellie Tayloe Ross, Loomis, Anna Harrington (Loomis's mother), and Joseph O'Mahoney, and an original campaign poster from Ross's run for re-election as governor of Wyoming.

.2 cubic ft. (2 folders)

Univerisity of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7831455

Univerisity of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.

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Ross, Nellie Tayloe, 1876-1977

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Nellie Davis Tayloe Ross (November 29, 1876 – December 19, 1977) was an American politician, the 14th governor of Wyoming from 1925 to 1927 and director of the United States Mint from 1933 to 1953. She was the first woman to be sworn in as governor of a U.S. state, and remains the only woman to have served as governor of Wyoming. Born in St. Joseph, Missouri she lived in Miltonvale, Kansas and Omaha, Nebraska before moving to Cheyenne, Wyoming with her husband, lawyer William Bradford Ross, w...

Loomis, Ruth Ward, 1810-

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Ruth Harrington Loomis was born and raised in Cheyenne, Wyoming. She was a 1922 graduate of Smith College. She served as an administrative assistant to Nellie Tayloe Ross, the first woman governor in the United States, throughout her term as governor of Wyoming. Loomis also served as Ross's personal secretary during the 1928 presidential campaign and as her colleague at National Democratic Headquarters. Following a brief tenure as state librarian, she married John Loomis in 1934 and had two chil...