by Michele Genthon | May 28, 2019 | FIRST WOMEN, Politics and Government
Please Note: All words in italics are direct quotes from Jeannette Rankin. The other words are from my research on this historical dynamo or from my imagination. Thank you to Ana Maria Spagna and Laura Pritchett for proposing this in one of their workshops. As the...
by Michele Genthon | Feb 3, 2019 | FIRST WOMEN, Politics and Government
Since 1922, a large percentage of the women who have gone to Congress have been First Women, the first to serve, the first to serve without following a husband into a position, the first to be elected, the first from a specific state, the first woman of color, and...
by Michele Genthon | Aug 5, 2018 | FIRST WOMEN, Politics and Government
Montana has only one representative in the U.S. House of Representatives and yet it has the distinction of having elected the First Woman representative. Montana gave women the right to vote in 1914. In 1917, three years before the rest of the nation granted suffrage...
by Michele Genthon | May 4, 2018 | FIRST WOMEN, Politics and Government
There were two major developments for First Woman in the U.S. Senate this year. One received extensive press coverage; the other did not. Tammy Duckworth Tammy Duckworth, Senator from Illinois, holds many firsts: –First Woman double amputee of the Iraq War...
by Michele Genthon | Jan 9, 2017 | FIRST WOMEN, Politics and Government
Catherine Cortez Masto is the First Woman elected to the Senate from the State of Nevada. In addition she is the first Latina ever elected to the Senate. A Democrat, she replaced former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. She was sworn in this month, along with three...
