Clementine Churchill
Wife of Winston Churchill and humanitarian activist
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Marilyn Laird Lloyd
Personal tragedy brought Marilyn Lloyd into the U.S. House of Representatives where, for 20 years, she represented the science and technology interests of her Tennessee district.
Rosalynn Carter
Rosalynn Carter, wife of the thirty-ninth U.S. president, Jimmy Carter, forged a career in public service as one of the nation’s foremost advocates for mental health.
Elizabeth Hanford Dole
The first woman to serve in the U.S. Senate from North Carolina, Elizabeth Dole brought years of governmental experience to Capitol Hill as a former U.S. Secretary of Transportation and U.S. Secretary of Labor in two different presidential Cabinets.
Catherine Dorris Norrell
Having worked alongside her husband as his legislative assistant for three decades, Catherine D. Norrell succeeded him as an Arkansas Representative in a special election after his death. Her experience as a congressional wife and aide helped to prepare her for new legislative responsibilities.
Charlotte Thompson Reid
Charlotte Thompson Reid had already enjoyed a career as a nationally acclaimed singer before she began her second career relatively late in life as the widow and successor of a congressional candidate who died in mid-campaign.
Effiegene Locke Wingo
Overcoming personal tragedy, Effiegene Locke Wingo succeeded her late husband in Congress to help her Arkansas constituents cope with an appalling national emergency. In the early days of the Great Depression, Wingo relied on her experience and connections as an active congressional wife to bring relief to her drought-stricken and impoverished Arkansas district.
Elizabeth Hawley Gasque
The first woman U.S. Representative from South Carolina
Emily Taft Douglas
In 1944 U.S. Congresswoman Emily Taft Douglas, a proponent of overseas humanitarian projects and a postwar United Nations Organization, defeated one of the most strident isolationists in the House of Representatives, heralding, as some observers believed, the triumph of American internationalism.
Jean Carnahan
Jean Carnahan, the former first lady of Missouri, was appointed to the United States Senate to fill the vacant seat from Missouri caused by the death of her husband.