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.
representative jeannette sinclair first elected woman to the US congresshattie w caraway first woman elected to the US senategladys pyle first republican woman elected to the US senatemrs mary t norton elected to US House of Representatives 1925edith nourse rogers elected to US House of Representatives 1925caroline O'Day elected to US House of Representatives 1934US representative virginia jenckes defeated 1938US representative nan honeyman defeated 1938
representative jeannette sinclair first elected woman to the US congresshattie w caraway first woman elected to the US senategladys pyle first republican woman elected to the US senatemrs mary t norton elected to US House of Representatives 1925edith nourse rogers elected to US House of Representatives 1925caroline O'Day elected to US House of Representatives 1934US representative virginia jenckes defeated 1938US representative nan honeyman defeated 1938
