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Ruth Baird Leavitt Owen Rohde (née Bryan; October 2, 1885 – July 26, 1954), also known as Ruth Bryan Owen, was an American politician and diplomat who represented Florida's 4th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1929 to 1933 and served as United States Envoy to Denmark from 1933 to 1936.
- Politician, diplomat, author
- Frederick W. B. Coleman
Ruth Bryan Owen (* 2. Oktober 1885 in Jacksonville, Illinois; † 26. Juli 1954 in Kopenhagen, Dänemark) war eine US-amerikanische Politikerin. Zwischen 1929 und 1933 vertrat sie den Bundesstaat Florida im US-Repräsentantenhaus .
Ruth Bryan Owen was known throughout Florida for her public speaking abilities, a skill which she likely learned from her outspoken parents, politician William Jennings Bryan and suffragist Mary Baird Bryan. On the lecture circuit in the early 1920s, Owen told stories about her experiences as an Army nurse during World War I and became such a ...
Ruth Bryan Owen was an orator, a US Democratic congresswoman (1929–1933), and a minister to Denmark and Iceland from 1933 to 1936. She was the daughter of the “Great Commoner” William Jennings Bryan, a three-time Democratic presidential nominee who retired to Florida in the late 1910s.
Ruth Bryan Owen, The first woman elected to Congress from the South, she was the daughter of presidential nominee William Jennings Bryan. Born in Nebraska, she moved to Florida in 1918. She was a widow and the mother of four when she was elected to Congress in 1928, eight years after women obtained the right to vote.
Ruth Bryan Owen (1885-1954) was a congresswoman, author, lecturer, world traveler, and the first woman ever to represent the United States as a diplomatic minister to a foreign nation. Active in many realms, congresswoman and diplomat Ruth Bryan Owen volunteered as a war nurse and also headed up numerous civic and educational organizations.
6. Aug. 2006 · This article examines the career of the United States’ first female chief of mission, Ruth Bryan Owen, Minister to Denmark (1933–36). After briefly tracing Owen’s background, it explores President Franklin Roosevelt’s pathbreaking appointment; the highlights of Owen’s Ministry, notably her practice of “people’s ...
