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Senator Snowe wrote to Senator Lott on June 24, 1999, that she could think of no better way to remedy this "unfortunate situation" than by displaying a portrait of Smith: "Senator Margaret Chase Smith served our nation with dignity and honor, and her life was a testimony to the possibilities that exist for women in America. What she proved is that it isn't necessarily gender which makes the ...
4. Nov. 2020 · Clyde became a U.S. Congressman; twenty years older than her and maybe a bit of a player, he died after only ten years of marriage. Margaret campaigned to take his seat and won…and kept winning until she switched to the Senate in 1948. Up until that same year, women served in the military only during wars (except for nurses).
M argaret C hase S mith. Declaration of Conscience. delivered 1 June 1950, Washington, D.C. click for pdf. M r. President: I would like to speak briefly and simply about a serious national condition. It is a national feeling of fear and frustration that could result in national suicide and the end of everything that we Americans hold dear.
Whether it be a criminal prosecution in court or a character prosecution in the Senate, there is little practical distinction when the life of a person has been ruined.” –Senator Margaret Chase Smith, 1950 Although Senator Smith does not name anyone in this quotation, she is most likely referring to a. Dwight Eisenhower. b. Joseph Welch.
The Life of Senator Margaret Chase Smith: Directed by Jeff Dobbs. With William Cohen, Susan Collins, Merton Henry, Angus King.
No Place for a Woman. A Life of Senator Margaret Chase Smith. By JANANN SHERMAN. Rutgers University Press. Read the Review. A Sense of Place. Although she resided for thirty-six years in the environs of Washington, D.C., Margaret Chase Smith never considered any place but Skowhegan, Maine, home. The eldest of six, she was born Margaret Madeline ...
26. Aug. 2021 · Clyde Smith passed away on Apr. 8, 1940, and Margaret Chase Smith won the special election to replace her husband. Now Congresswoman Smith then won the general election that same year with 65% of the vote. She was not the first woman to sit in the House of Representatives, but she would blaze a trail of her own and serve a long and unique thirty-two years in government.
