Virginia Ellis Jenckes
The first Indiana woman to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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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
Idola Saint-John
A pioneer of women’s rights, Idola Saint-Jean founded in 1927 the Canadian Alliance for the Women’s Vote in Quebec.
Elizabeth O’Farrell
20th century Irish republican
Elizabeth Rawdon
1700s countess of Moira , literary patroness, and antiquarian