Hattie Wyatt Caraway
Hattie Wyatt Caraway served for 14 years in the U.S. Senate and established a number of “firsts,” including her 1932 feat of winning election to the upper chamber of Congress in her own right.
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Silvia Pinal
Celebrated Mexican actress
Frances Parkinson Keyes
Frances Parkinson Keyes was a prolific journalist, editor, memoirist, and biographer, but was most well known as a bestselling novelist.
Jean Childs Young
Jean Childs Young was the first lady of Atlanta during the mayoral terms of her husband, Andrew Young, in the 1980s and was known nationally and internationally as an educator and advocate for children’s rights.
Frances Berkeley
Upon her husband’s death, Frances inherited his large estate and soon married the Virginia governor, taking up residence at his estate, Green Spring, and vigorously supporting him during Bacon’s Rebellion during the summer of 1676.
Lucy Johnson Barbour
Lucy Johnson Barbour was an American women’s leader and Whig Party activist.
Suzanne Louverture
Wife of Haitian Revolution leader Toussaint Louverture; she was tortured when captured by Napoleon. They demanded information about the whereabouts of her husband which she never divulged.
Marie-Claire Heureuse Félicité
She became the first Empress of Haiti after her marriage to General Jean-Jacques Dessalines who crowned himself emperor of Haiti on October 8, 1804.
Marie-Louise Coidavid
Marie-Louise Coidavid was the first and only Queen of an independent Haiti.
Luz Corral
Although Pancho Villa went on to marry many other women, Corral is considered his first wife, and the only one to have contributed to his political career.