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WOMEN IN THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS - 1959
THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE (86th Congress, 1st Session):
Eight Republican Women Members
1.
MRS. EDITH NOURSE ROGERS, 5th District of Massachusetts
18th Term -
Mrs. Rogers of Lowell was elected June, 1925 to fill the
vacancy created by the death of her husband, John Jacob
Rogers.
She is now ranking minority member of the House Veterans
Affairs Committee. In the Republican 80th and 83rd Congresses
she was Chairman, the first Republican woman to head a Con-
gressional Committee.
Representative Rogers' concern for veterans, especially
disabled veterans, dates back to her service with the American
Red Cross in World War I. She has served as the personal
representative of Presidents Farding, Coolidge and Hoover in
establishment of suitable veterans' hospital facilities, inspection
of veterans hospitals and devising of suitable hospital construct-
ion programs.
During World War II she introduced the bill creating the
Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, later the WAC. Her
numerous other bills include equal pay for equal work.
Representative Rogers is a graduate of the Rogers School,
Lowell, Massachusetts, and Madame Julien's School in Paris
where she also attended the Sorbonne. She is a member of
the Women's Overseas League and the American Legion
Auxiliary and is the first and only woman to receive the
American Legion's Distinguished Service Medal.
2.
MRS. FRANCES P. BOLTON, 22nd District of Ohio
11th Term -
Representative Bolton of Cleveland was elected in February,
1940 to complete the unexpired term of her late husband,
Chester C. Bolton. She is the only Ohio woman ever elected
to Congress. When Oliver Bolton, one of her three sons,
represented Ohio's 11th District in the House, they were the
only mother- son team ever to serve in Congress.
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