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Bertha Sheppard Adkins (1906-1983) —
also known as Bertha S. Adkins —
of Salisbury, Wicomico
County, Md.
Born in Salisbury, Wicomico
County, Md., August
24, 1906.
Daughter of Frederic Paul Adkins and Edna May (Sheppard) Adkins.
Republican. Dean of
Women, Western Maryland College, Westminster, Md., 1934-42; Dean of
Residence, Bradford Junior College, Bradford, Mass., 1942-46;
member of Republican
National Committee from Maryland, 1948-58; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Maryland, 1956,
1960
(alternate).
Female.
Methodist.
Member, American
Association of University Women; Pi Lambda Theta.
Died January
14, 1983 (age 76 years, 143
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Annie Webb Blanton (1870-1945) —
of Austin, Travis
County, Tex.
Born in Houston, Harris
County, Tex., August
19, 1870.
Daughter of Thomas Lindsay Blanton and Eugenia (Webb) Blanton.
Democrat. College
professor; Texas
superintendent of public instruction, 1919-23.
Female.
Methodist.
Member, American
Association of University Women; Daughters of the
American Revolution; United
Daughters of the Confederacy; Phi
Beta Kappa; Kappa
Delta Pi; Pi Lambda Theta; Pi Gamma
Mu; Delta
Kappa Gamma; Order of the
Eastern Star; Maccabees.
First
woman to be elected to statewide office in Texas.
Died October
2, 1945 (age 75 years, 44
days).
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Austin, Tex.
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Grace Holmes Carlson (b. 1906) —
also known as Grace Carlson —
of Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn.
Born in St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn., November
13, 1906.
Candidate for U.S.
Senator from Minnesota, 1940 (Trotskyist Anti-War), 1946
(Revolutionary Workers); Socialist Workers candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1948.
Female.
Member, Sigma
Xi; Pi Lambda Theta.
Presumed
deceased.
Burial
location unknown.
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Mary Louise Nice (b. 1911) —
of Tonawanda, Erie
County, N.Y.
Born in Grand Island, Erie
County, N.Y., October
22, 1911.
Democrat. School
teacher; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New
York, 1940,
1944
(alternate), 1956.
Female.
Episcopalian.
Member, Pi Lambda Theta.
Still living as of 1956.
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Chase Going Woodhouse (1890-1984) —
also known as Chase Going; Mrs. E. J.
Woodhouse —
of New London, New London
County, Conn.; Baltic, Sprague, New London
County, Conn.
Born in Victoria, British
Columbia, of American parents, March 3,
1890.
Daughter of Seymour Going and Harriet (Jackson) Going.
Democrat. Economist;
college
professor; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Connecticut, 1940,
1944;
secretary
of state of Connecticut, 1941-43; U.S.
Representative from Connecticut 2nd District, 1945-47, 1949-51;
defeated, 1946, 1950; delegate
to Connecticut state constitutional convention 2nd District, 1965.
Female.
Member, League
of Women Voters; American
Association of University Women; Altrusa;
Pi Lambda Theta; Kappa
Delta Pi.
Died in New Canaan, Fairfield
County, Conn., December
12, 1984 (age 94 years, 284
days).
Cremated.
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