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In protest, Republican Senator Margaret Chase Smith composed the following “Declaration of Conscience,” condemning the atmosphere of suspicion and blaming leaders of both parties for their “lack of effective leadership.” Although Smith convinced six additional Republican Senators to join her in the Declaration, the seven refused to support a Senate report prepared by Democrats that ...
1. Nov. 1999 · No Place for a Woman is the first biography to analyze Margaret Chase Smith’s life and times by using politics and gender as the lens through which we can understand this Maine senator’s impact on American politics and American women. Sherman’s research is based upon more than one hundred hours of personal interviews with Senator Smith, and extensive research in primary and government ...
- Janann Sherman
3. Juli 2021 · Margaret Chase Smith, the first woman to serve in both houses of Congress and the first Republican woman to be elected Senator, fiercely presented her most famous speech “Declaration of Conscience,” denouncing baseless anti-Communist accusations by Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy, who sat two rows behind her when she delivered the speech on the Senate floor (McBrayer, “Margaret Chase ...
According to the Margaret Chase Smith Library, Smith later said of her accomplishments: "If I am to be remembered in history, it will not be because of legislative accomplishments, but for an act I took as a legislator in the U.S. Senate when on June 1, 1950, I spoke … in condemnation of McCarthyism, when the junior Senator from Wisconsin had the Senate paralyzed with fear that he would ...
The Life of Senator Margaret Chase Smith es una pelicula con Jack Perkins. Noticias y Análisis de cine y series Cine Y Series Seguimiento de series y películas ...
26. Juli 2016 · A day in the life of Senator Margaret Chase Smith as she considered whether to run for president. (Local Identifier: 263.1588) When Margaret Chase Smith decided to run for president in 1964, it was with apparent reluctance. Her principles dictated that she not miss time on the job as a senator, nor would she accept donations for her campaign ...
Smith, Margaret Chase (1897–1995)U.S. congressional representative and four-term senator, known as the "conscience of the Senate," who was the first senator to publicly oppose Joseph McCarthy and the first woman candidate for a major party nomination for the U.S. Source for information on Smith, Margaret Chase (1897–1995): Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia dictionary.
