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.
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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.
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.
Marguerite Cole
The first woman to vote in the United States after the passage of the 19th Amendment.
Hortense Prévost
Canadian known for her role as a British loyalist during the Rebellions of 1837–1838
Florence Price Dwyer
Florence Price Dwyer, a U.S. Representative, pushed for civil rights legislation, consumer protection measures, and institutional reform during her 16-year House career.
Margaret Thatcher
The first female British prime minister