Hazel Hempel Abel
Hazel Hempel Abel, an accomplished businesswoman and Republican Party official, was elected to the U.S. Senate from Nebraska to fill a two-month term created by a technicality in the state’s election law.
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Helen Stevenson Meyner
Politically connected by both birth and marriage, Helen Stevenson Meyner entered elective politics for the first time to serve New Jersey for two terms in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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.
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.
Stella Alexander
Stella Alexander broke into the previously exclusive boy’s club of Issaquah, Washington politics when she was elected to the town council in 1927, and in 1932 was elected to a two-year term as mayor of the town.
Tillie Kidd Fowler
Tillie Fowler rose to become one of the highest-ranking Republican women in the US House of Representatives.