Helen Douglas Mankin
During her brief U.S. House of Representatives term, Helen Douglas Mankin of Georgia brought national attention to her longtime political cause: advocating on behalf of poor and disenfranchised southern voters.
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Iris Faircloth Blitch
Representative Iris Blitch of Georgia embodied a peculiar mixture of progressive feminism and southern conservatism during her long political career, which included four terms in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Jane Grey Burgio
Jane Grey Burgio (1922-2005), a Republican from West Caldwell, was the first female secretary of state in New Jersey.
Jane L Campbell
Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio 2002-05
Jeannette Hayner
Despite a late start in politics and competing in a field dominated by men at the time, Jeannette C. Hayner became one of Washington’s most powerful state legislators.
Heather Wilson
In 1998 Heather Wilson became the first woman veteran of the U.S. armed services and the second woman from New Mexico elected to the U.S. Congress.
Tillie Kidd Fowler
Tillie Fowler rose to become one of the highest-ranking Republican women in the US House of Representatives.
Virginia Ellis Jenckes
The first Indiana woman to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Virginia Dodd Smith
The first woman elected to the US Congress from Nebraska
Pearl Anderson Wanamaker
Pearl Wanamaker was a long-serving Superintendent of Public Instruction (1941-1957), who addressed World War II educational and vocational demands, and managed the build-up and rural consolidation of the public school system for a swelling World War ll baby boom.