Patsy Lawlor
20th century Irish politician and Irish Countrywomen’s Association president
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Rosa O’Doherty
1600s exiled Irish political activist
Mary Jane O’Donovan Rossa
Irish poet
Caroline Grey
Irish political hostess, business owner and activist
Caroline Douglas
1800s marchioness of Queensberry and Irish nationalist benefactor
Abby Finkenauer
US Representative from Iowa
Chase Going Woodhouse
Chase Going Woodhouse, an economics professor-turned-politician, served for two nonconsecutive terms in the US House of Representatives, representing a competitive district spanning eastern Connecticut.
Katharine St. George
During her 18 years in the US House of Representatives, she rose into the GOP leadership because of her fiscal conservatism and commitment to limiting the size of government. Though she spurned the feminist label, St. George became an outspoken advocate for women’s economic equality, coining the phrase “equal pay for equal work.”
Victoria Spartz
Ukrainian-American US Representative from Indiana
Martha Elizabeth Keys
US Representative Martha Elizabeth Keys’s two-term House career provides a window on a transitional moment in the story of women in Congress.