Elizabeth Hawley Gasque
The first woman U.S. Representative from South Carolina
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Emily Taft Douglas
In 1944 U.S. Congresswoman Emily Taft Douglas, a proponent of overseas humanitarian projects and a postwar United Nations Organization, defeated one of the most strident isolationists in the House of Representatives, heralding, as some observers believed, the triumph of American internationalism.
Jean Carnahan
Jean Carnahan, the former first lady of Missouri, was appointed to the United States Senate to fill the vacant seat from Missouri caused by the death of her husband.
Jocelyn Birch Burdick
Jocelyn Burdick was appointed to a brief three-month U.S Congressional term to fill the vacancy caused by the death of her husband, a longtime North Dakota Senator and Representative.
Katharine Byron
Maryland’s first woman Member in Congress, Katharine Edgar Byron, came to the U.S. House after winning a special election to succeed her husband who died in a plane crash.
Rita Ndzanga
South African anti-apartheid, labor rights and women’s rights activist
Ruth Mompati
South African anti-apartheid and women’s rights activist
Di Bishop
South African politician and anti-apartheid activist
Shirley Gunn
South African anti-apartheid activist
Helen Newton Thompson
South African anti-apartheid political activist and founding member of the Black Sash