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...have their husbands keel over. Most of the century's first women in Congress were political widows such as Margaret Chase Smith, the legendary Republican Senator from Maine who succeeded her husband and took on Joe McCarthy. The first woman elected to the Senate was Arkansas's Hattie Wyatt Caraway who was appointed to fill her husband's term in 1932 and was elected on her own later that year. Edith Wilson effectively ran the White House after husband Woodrow was waylaid by a stroke. Today, there are still plenty of widows on the political scene, including two from Missouri...
...next day, after a 90-minute hearing closed to the press, Fujisaki dismissed the panel's only African-American juror, Rosemary Caraway, 62, a retired telephone-company dispatcher, over the objections of the lawyers representing the families of Ronald Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson. The court had learned that the woman had failed to disclose that her daughter worked as a secretary in the office of Los Angeles District Attorney Gil Garcetti, who prosecuted Simpson in the criminal case...
...were beginning, one in which the female sex would trickle its way into the policy arena. If only they could have lived another 122 years (1917) to watch Jeannette Rankin, a Republican from Montana become the first woman elected to the House of Representatives. In 1931, Hattie Ophelia Wyatt Caraway (this was obviously not a time when a woman could opt merely to keep her own name) became the first female U.S. Senator. Frances Perkins led us into the White House when she was appointed Secretary of Labor by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1933, becoming the first woman cabinet...
BORN: June 26, 1938, Buffalo, N.Y. EDUCATION: Union College, B.A., 1959; U of Hawaii, M.A., 1964, Ph.D., 1974 FAMILY: Wife, Nancie Caraway RELIGION: NR MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Educator POLITICAL CAREER: Hawaii House, 1975-79, Senate, 1979-86; U.S. House, 1986-87; Honolulu city council, 1988-90; U.S. House, 1990- ADDRESS: 3130 Waialee, Honolulu...
...House: Christina L. Davis, Sarah L. Elson, Tamara Koss, Alsion D. Morantz. Cabot House: Chrysoula Dosiou, Valerie Weinstein, Jennifer J. Yeh. Currier House: Christine J. Chang, Anne L. Su. Dudley House: Rose Du. Adams House: Diana R. Graham, Carey M. Knight, Lynn D. Lu, Anna Heron More, Kamenna Rindova, Caraway Seed. Dunster House: Blythe Grossberg, Jessica B. Ludwig, Sylvia A. Parsons, Faith C. Salie. Quincy House: Laura Horton, Lisa M. Korn. Eliot House: Ashley Jufft. Mather House: Elizabeth McGuire...