This column recalls the earliest women to serve in the House and Senate (although the 1922 tenure of Senator Rebecca Latimer Felton was oddly excluded):
“In 1916, the first Congresswoman was elected. She was Miss Jeannette Rankin (1880 – 1973), a Republican from Montana. On her first day in the House, war was declared; she voted against it. The next Congress had no women…. Only one woman, however, has been elected to the U.S. Senate. She is Mrs. Hattie W. Caraway (1878 – 1950), a Democrat, first appointed in 1931 to fill Senator Thaddeus Caraway’s place, and re-elected two weeks ago for the second term.”
Click here to read about the women who entered high office in 1924…
Click here to read about the women in FDR’s administration.
KEY WORDS: representative jeannette sinclair first elected woman to the US congress,hattie w caraway first woman elected to the US senate,gladys pyle first republican woman elected to the US senate,mrs mary t norton elected to US House of Representatives 1925,edith nourse rogers elected to US House of Representatives 1925,caroline O’Day elected to US House of Representatives 1934,US representative virginia jenckes defeated 1938,US representative nan honeyman defeated 1938,
