Pearl Bowers Mabe interview, 1990 Feb. 2.

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Pearl Bowers Mabe interview, 1990 Feb. 2.

Topics include G.B. Pfost (U.S. Representative from Idaho 1953 to 1963), and politics and government in Idaho.

Sound recordings : 1 cassette.

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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...

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U.S. House of Representatives is the lower house of Congress. From the guide to the Subscription lists, 1870, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) The first session of the Congress of the United States, under a resolution passed by the Congress of the Confederation, on September 13, 1788, was called to meet in New York City on March 4, 1789. On the appointed day only 13 Members of the House were present and, as this number did not constitute a quorum, the sessions...

Mabe, Pearl Bowers

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Idaho Educational Public Broadcasting System

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