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The House passed a constitutional amendment granting Women in Congress the right to vote by a count of 274 to 13 ... On this date, Alice Robertson of Oklahoma became the first woman to preside over a session of the U.S. House of Representatives...
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“I came to Congress to represent my district,” she declared, “not women.” On June 20, 1921, during a roll call vote on funding for a United States delegation to the centennial celebrations of Peru’s independence, Robertson became the first woman to preside over a session of the House of Representatives.8...
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Four years after Jeannette Rankin was elected to the House of Representatives in 1916, women won the right to vote nationally, with the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920. Rebecca Felton of Georgia became the first woman to serve in the U.S. Senate in 1922. That same year, Alice Robertson of Oklahoma became...
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Alice Robertson of Oklahoma becomes the first woman to preside over the House of Representatives. Her session lasts thirty minutes. ... In response to reports indicating that fully 80 percent of American women do not receive adequate prenatal care, Harding signs the Sheppard-Towner Maternity and Infancy Act,
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Only the second woman elected to the Congress, Miss Alice was the first woman to preside over the House of Representatives. After her election she announced that she would concentrate on promoting legislation to better the lives of Indians, women, farmers, soldiers, and working people.
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- Maryland Women vote for first time on November 2, 1920. - Mary Risteau is the first woman in the Maryland House of Delegates in 1921. She is the first women to preside over the House and on the State Board of Education in 1922. - The 1922 Quadrennial Elections Amendment mandates general elections every four...
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Alice Mary Robertson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Alice Mary Robertson (January 2, 1854 – July 1, 1931) was an American educator, social worker, government official, and politician who became the second woman to serve in the United States Congress, ...
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As the popular first lady of her state, she gained experience in what a woman of her time aptly called "semi-public life." Thus she entered the White House with confidence gained from her long and happy married life, ... She became one of the best-loved women to preside over the White House, ... Florence Harding...
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Spoke at the African Meeting House. ... 1837 The first women's only college opened in the US: Mount Holyoke Seminary ... Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott - Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) - Suffragist, abolitionist, chief political strategist and theoretician of the women's rights movement for over fifty years,
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