by Michele Genthon | Apr 9, 2017 | FIRST WOMEN, Politics and Government
When people keep telling you, you can’t do a thing, you kind of like to try. [Margaret Chase Smith] The First Woman who served in the Senate was Rebecca Latimer Felton in 1922. The governor of the state of Georgia had not supported the Nineteenth Amendment...
by Michele Genthon | Mar 14, 2017 | FIRST WOMEN, General, Politics and Government
The first six chapters of my book on First Women are drafted and my research keeps revealing ironies that intrigue me. I thought I’d share four ironies I uncovered in three of my First Women stories. Irony One: Nellie Tayloe Ross was the First Woman governor in the...
by Michele Genthon | Jul 28, 2016 | FIRST WOMEN, Politics and Government
Hillary Clinton is the First Woman ever nominated by a major political party to run for President of the United States. She has established her credentials, campaigned vigorously, and won the title. She is not, however, the first woman to run for President and there...
by Michele Genthon | Dec 30, 2013 | FIRST WOMEN, Politics and Government
When I featured Margaret Chase Smith as the Woman of Note on December 14, I knew she was a woman of many firsts. It was not until I researched further that I learned she was also a woman of great wisdom whose words resonate today....
