Evelyn Mase
Frst wife of Nelson Mandela
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Lindy Boggs
After winning a special election to succeed her husband, Congresswoman Boggs went on to serve 18 years in the US House of Representatives, becoming an advocate for women’s equality, economic opportunity for minorities, and the preservation of House heritage.
Patricia Fisher
Irish politician and charity worker
Kasturba Gandhi
Indian activist
Madame Naokichi Matsunaga
Wife of the imperial Japanese consul in Seattle in the 1910s
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
South African political activist and wife of Nelson Mandela
Albertina Sisulu
Nontsikelelo Albertina Sisulu (née Nontsikelelo Thethiwe) was one of the prominent anti-apartheid South African leaders, widely referred to as the “Mother of the Nation”.
Sinéad de Valera
Irish teacher, folklorist, and writer
Louise Goff Reece
Louise G. Reece won a special election to succeed her Congressman husband after his death in 1961. .
Edna Oakes Simpson
Edna O. Simpson was unexpectedly thrust into public life when her Congressman husband collapsed and died less than two weeks before the 1958 midterm elections. A day after his death, she agreed to replace him as the GOP nominee in the western Illinois congressional district.