Ella Grasso
Connecticut Representative Ella Grasso’s brief House career bridged two decades of service in state government and two trailblazing terms as the state’s governor.
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Florence Prag Kahn
Succeeding her husband, Florence P. Kahn used charisma and humor to carve out her own political accomplishments as a California Representative.
Norah Elam
Irish suffragist and fascist
Irene Langhorne Gibson
Irene Langhorne Gibson chaired the Child Planning and Adoption Committee of New York’s State Charities Association for twenty-five years. She founded the New York branch of the Southern Women’s Educational Alliance, was a member of the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children, and helped found and was a director of the Protestant Big Sisters, on whose board she served for many years.
Luisa Cáceres Díaz de Arismendi
Venezuelan independence patriot
Anne Margaret Rowan
1800s Irish novelist, historian, and political activist
Albinia Brodrick
Irish republican and nurse
Valerie Goulding
Irish philanthropist and senator
Agnes Campbell
1500s lady of Kintyre and Dunyveg
Silvia Pinal
Celebrated Mexican actress