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Women in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1930–1939


Name Party-State Dates served
Effiegene Locke Wingo Dem.-Ark. 1930–1933
Willa McCord Blake Eslick Dem.-Tenn. 1932–1933
Kathryn Ellen O'Loughlin (McCarthy) Dem.-Kan. 1933–1935
Virginia Ellis Jenckes Dem.-Ind. 1933–1939
Isabella Selmes Greenway Dem.-Ariz. 1933–1937
Marian Williams Clarke Rep.-N.Y. 1933–1935
Caroline Love Goodwin O'Day Dem.-N.Y. 1935–1943
Nan Wood Honeyman Dem.-Ore. 1937–1939
Elizabeth Hawley Gasque Dem.-S.C. 1938–1939
Jessie Sumner Rep.-Ill. 1939–1947
Clara Gooding McMillan Dem.-S.C. 1939–1941

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