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 | Feb 10, 2014 | FIRST WOMEN, Politics and Government
“The times, they are a-changing.” [Bob Dylan] Tammy Baldwin was the first woman elected to the US House of Representatives from Wisconsin. She later became the first woman elected to the US Senate from Wisconsin. For these achievements alone, she enters the...
