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Elaine Bloom (b. 1937) —
of Miami Beach, Miami-Dade
County, Fla.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., September
16, 1937.
Democrat. Member of Florida
state house of representatives 106th District, 1974-78,
1986-2000; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Florida,
1976
(alternate), 1992,
1996;
candidate for Florida
state senate 36th District, 1978; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Florida 22nd District, 2000.
Female.
Jewish.
Member, League of Women Voters; Council on
Foreign Relations.
Still living as of 2000.
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Carrie Chapman Catt (1859-1947) —
also known as Carrie Lane; Carrie Chapman —
of Mason City, Cerro
Gordo County, Iowa; New Rochelle, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Ripon, Fond du Lac
County, Wis., January
9, 1859.
School
teacher; superintendent
of schools; woman suffrage activist; president, National American
Woman Suffrage Association, 1900-04 (succeeding Susan B. Anthony) and
1915-20; founder of the League of Women Voters; Dry candidate for delegate
to New York convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933.
Female.
Member, League of Women Voters.
Inducted, National
Women's Hall of Fame, 1982.
Died, from a heart
attack, in New Rochelle, Westchester
County, N.Y., March 9,
1947 (age 88 years, 59
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
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Shirley Anita Chisholm (1924-2005) —
also known as Shirley Chisholm; Shirley Anita St.
Hill —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., November
30, 1924.
Democrat. Member of New York
state assembly, 1965-68 (Kings County 17th District 1965, 45th
District 1966, 55th District 1967-68); U.S.
Representative from New York 12th District, 1969-83; candidate
for Democratic nomination for President, 1972;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1980;
Honorary Co-Chair, 1984;
speaker, 1988.
Female.
Methodist.
African
ancestry. Member, League of Women Voters; NAACP; Americans
for Democratic Action; National
Organization for Women; Urban
League; Delta
Sigma Theta.
Inducted, National
Women's Hall of Fame, 1993.
Died in Ormond Beach, Volusia
County, Fla., January
1, 2005 (age 80 years, 32
days).
Entombed in mausoleum at Forest
Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, N.Y.
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Marguerite Stitt Church (1892-1990) —
also known as Marguerite S. Church; Marguerite Stitt;
Mrs. Ralph E. Church —
of Evanston, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., September
13, 1892.
Republican. Psychologist;
U.S.
Representative from Illinois 13th District, 1951-63; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Illinois, 1964;
speaker, 1952,
1956,
1960.
Female.
Methodist.
Member, League of Women Voters; Phi
Beta Kappa; American
Association of University Women; Delta
Kappa Gamma; Zonta; Beta
Sigma Phi; American
Legion Auxiliary.
Died May 26,
1990 (age 97 years, 255
days).
Interment at Memorial
Park Cemetery, Skokie, Ill.
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Marion Constantine (1889-1987) —
also known as Marion Hamilton —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.; Passaic, Passaic
County, N.J.; Quechee, Hartford, Windsor
County, Vt.
Born in Seymour, New Haven
County, Conn., May 29,
1889.
Stenographer;
delegate
to New Jersey state constitutional convention from Passaic
County, 1947.
Female.
Member, League of Women Voters.
Died in February, 1987
(age 97
years, 0 days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Daughter of Robert A. Hamilton and Harriet (Beecher) Hamilton;
married to Joseph H. Constantine. |
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Sara Buek Crawford (b. 1876) —
also known as Sara B. Crawford —
of Westport, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., November
2, 1876.
Republican. Member of Connecticut
state house of representatives from Westport, 1925-28, 1931-38;
secretary
of state of Connecticut, 1939-41.
Female.
Member, League of Women Voters.
Burial location unknown.
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Helen Gordon Davis (b. 1926) —
of Hillsborough
County, Fla.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., 1926.
Democrat. Member of Florida
state house of representatives, 1975-88; member of Florida
state senate, 1989.
Female.
Member, NAACP;
League of Women Voters.
Inducted 1998 into the Florida Women's Hall of Fame.
Still living as of 2001.
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Helen Gahagan Douglas (1900-1980) —
also known as Helen Mary Gahagan; "The Pink
Lady" —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Boonton, Morris
County, N.J., November
25, 1900.
Democrat. Actress
and opera
singer, 1922-38; member of Democratic
National Committee from California, 1940-44; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from California, 1940
(alternate), 1944
(speaker),
1948;
vice-chair
of California Democratic Party, 1941-42; U.S.
Representative from California 14th District, 1945-51; candidate
for U.S.
Senator from California, 1950 (Democratic), 1952 (Independent).
Female.
Scottish
and Irish
ancestry. Member, League of Women Voters; American
Academy of Political and Social Science.
Died, of lung
cancer, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., June 28,
1980 (age 79 years, 216
days).
Cremated.
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Hazel Nell Dukes (b. 1932) —
also known as Hazel N. Dukes —
of Roslyn Heights, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Montgomery, Montgomery
County, Ala., March
17, 1932.
Democrat. Member of Democratic
National Committee from New York, 1975-93; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New York, 1976,
1980,
1984,
1988,
1996;
member, Rules Committee, 2008;
Democratic Presidential Elector for New York, 1992;
Democratic Presidential Elector for New York, 2020
(voted for Joseph
R. Biden, Jr. and Kamala
D. Harris); Democratic Presidential Elector for New York, 2024
(elected on behalf of Kamala
D. Harris and Tim
Walz; did not serve).
Female.
Baptist.
African
ancestry. Member, League of Women Voters; NAACP.
Still living as of 2024.
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June Margolin Eisland —
also known as June M. Eisland —
of Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York,
1984
(alternate), 1988,
1996,
2000.
Female.
Jewish.
Member, NAACP;
League of Women Voters.
Still living as of 2000.
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Lois J. Frankel (b. 1948) —
of West Palm Beach, Palm Beach
County, Fla.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., May 16,
1948.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Florida
state house of representatives 85th District, 1997-; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Florida, 1996,
2000,
2004,
2008;
mayor
of West Palm Beach, Fla., 2009.
Female.
Jewish.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; League of Women Voters; National
Organization for Women.
Still living as of 2009.
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Helen Getler (b. 1925) —
of Roslyn Harbor, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.; Roslyn, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., May 30,
1925.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York,
1972.
Female.
Jewish.
Member, Delta
Sigma Pi; League of Women Voters.
Still living as of 1993.
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Anne Clark Martindell (1914-2008) —
also known as Anne C. Martindell; Anne Clark; Mrs.
Jackson Martindell —
of Princeton, Mercer
County, N.J.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., July 18,
1914.
Democrat. School
teacher; vice-chair of
New Jersey Democratic Party, 1969-74; member of New
Jersey state senate 14th District, 1974-77; member of Democratic
National Committee from New Jersey, 1976; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New Jersey, 1976;
U.S. Ambassador to New Zealand, 1979-81; Western Samoa, 1979-81.
Female.
Episcopalian.
Member, League of Women Voters.
Died June 11,
2008 (age 93 years, 329
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Annie Mathews (1866-1959) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., November
6, 1866.
Democrat. Dressmaker;
Democratic candidate for Presidential Elector for New York, 1920;
New
York County Register, 1922-29; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from New York, 1924,
1928;
member of New York
Democratic State Committee, 1930.
Female.
Member, League of Women Voters.
Died, in Glenwood Nursing
Home, Yonkers, Westchester
County, N.Y., October
24, 1959 (age 92 years, 352
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Lucille Maurer (1922-1996) —
also known as Lucy Maurer; Lucille Shirley
Darvin —
of Silver Spring, Montgomery
County, Md.
Born, in Bushwick Hospital,
Rockland
County, N.Y., November
21, 1922.
Democrat. Economist;
delegate
to Maryland state constitutional convention, 1967-68; member of
Maryland
state house of delegates, 1969-87; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Maryland, 1970; Maryland
state treasurer, 1987-96; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Maryland, 1988.
Female.
Jewish.
Member, League of Women Voters; National
Trust for Historic Preservation; American
Association of University Women; National
Organization for Women.
Elected to Maryland Women's Hall of
Fame, 1990.
Died of a brain
tumor, in Silver Spring, Montgomery
County, Md., June 17,
1996 (age 73 years, 209
days).
Interment at Jewish
Community Cemetery, New Hempstead, N.Y.
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Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) —
also known as Anna Eleanor Roosevelt —
of Hyde Park, Dutchess
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., October
11, 1884.
Democrat. First Lady
of the United States, 1933-45; delegate to the United Nations
General Assembly, 1945-53; member, United Nations Commission on Human
Rights; newspaper
columnist;
speaker, Democratic National Convention, 1952,
1956,
1960;
member, President's Commission on the Status of Women, 1961-62.
Female.
Member, League of Women Voters; NAACP.
Inducted, National
Women's Hall of Fame, 1973.
Died, of tuberculosis,
in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., November
7, 1962 (age 78 years, 27
days).
Interment at Roosevelt
Home, Hyde Park, N.Y.
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Relatives:
Daughter of Elliott Bulloch Roosevelt and Anna (Hall) Roosevelt;
sister of Gracie Hall Roosevelt (who married Dorothy
Kemp Roosevelt); married, March
17, 1905, to Franklin
Delano Roosevelt; mother of James
Roosevelt, Elliott
Roosevelt and Franklin
Delano Roosevelt Jr.; niece of Theodore
Roosevelt and Corinne
Roosevelt Robinson; grandniece of Robert
Barnwell Roosevelt; great-grandniece of James
I. Roosevelt; second great-grandniece of William
Bellinger Bulloch; third great-granddaughter of Archibald
Bulloch; first cousin of Theodore
Douglas Robinson, Alice
Roosevelt Longworth, Corinne
Alsop Cole, Theodore
Roosevelt Jr. and William
Sheffield Cowles; first cousin once removed of Corinne
Alsop Chubb and John
deKoven Alsop; first cousin twice removed of Susan
Roosevelt Weld; second cousin thrice removed of Philip
DePeyster; second cousin four times removed of Nicholas
Roosevelt Jr.. |
| | | Political family: Roosevelt
family of New York City, New York (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail — National
Women's Hall of Fame |
| | | Books about Eleanor Roosevelt: Hazel
Rowley, Franklin
and Eleanor: An Extraordinary Marriage — Maurine H.
Beasley, Eleanor
Roosevelt: Transformative First Lady |
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Dorothy H. Rose (b. 1920) —
of Angola, Erie
County, N.Y.
Born in Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y., September
21, 1920.
Democrat. Librarian;
member of New York
state assembly, 1965-68 (Erie County 8th District 1965, 163rd
District 1966, 147th District 1967-68).
Female.
Catholic.
Member, League of Women Voters; Grange;
Delta
Kappa Gamma.
Presumed deceased.
Burial location unknown.
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Married to Thomas A. Rose. |
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Alice V. Rowland (b. 1894) —
also known as Alice V. McSherry —
of Ridgefield, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., July 18,
1894.
Republican. School
teacher; member of Connecticut
state house of representatives from Ridgefield, 1931-34; member
of Connecticut
state senate 24th District, 1943-46.
Female.
Member, Grange;
League of Women Voters.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Daughter of Frank McSherry and Ellen McSherry. |
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Alice Sachs (1905-1997) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Kansas City, Jackson
County, Mo., December
18, 1905.
Democrat. Candidate for New York
state assembly from New York County 9th District, 1956, 1958,
1960; candidate for New York
state senate 20th District, 1962; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from New York, 1964,
1980,
1984;
Democratic Presidential Elector for New York, 1976.
Female.
Jewish.
Member, Americans
for Democratic Action; League of Women Voters; B'nai
B'rith; Urban
League; Phi
Beta Kappa; American Civil
Liberties Union; NAACP.
Died at the Hallmark Nursing
Centre in North Granville, Washington
County, N.Y., March
29, 1997 (age 91 years, 101
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Daughter of Charles Sachs and Flora (Weil) Sachs. |
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Olive Corning Sanford (1875-1970) —
also known as Olive C. Sanford; Olive Terry
Corning —
of Nutley, Essex
County, N.J.
Born in Palmyra, Wayne
County, N.Y., December
19, 1875.
Member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Essex County, 1935-36,
1938-42; delegate
to New Jersey state constitutional convention from Essex County,
1947.
Female.
Member, League of Women Voters; American
Association of University Women.
Died March
15, 1970 (age 94 years, 86
days).
Interment at Palmyra
Cemetery, Palmyra, N.Y.
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Charlotte Spiegel (1922-2015) —
also known as Charlotte Sandra Neuman —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., March
22, 1922.
Democrat. School
teacher; interior
decorator; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New
York, 1964,
1968;
in 1976, she successfully advocated for the requirement of metal
window guards for New York City apartments with children under age
10, the first such requirement in the nation; this dramatically
reduced the number of children injured or killed in falls from
windows; in 1985, she was a passenger on the cruise ship Achille
Lauro, when it was hijacked on the Mediterranean by Palestinian
terrorists.
Female.
Member, League of Women Voters.
Died, in New York University Langone Medical
Center, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., February
27, 2015 (age 92 years, 342
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Anna Mary Tibbets —
also known as Anna Tibbets —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Tibbetts Hills, Yonkers, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Democrat. School
teacher; alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention
from California, 1948.
Female.
Unitarian.
Member, American
Association of University Women; League of Women Voters.
Burial location unknown.
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Edith P. Welty (c.1881-1957) —
of Yonkers, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, about 1881.
Successfully advocated for city manager system in Yonkers, 1938; mayor
of Yonkers, N.Y., 1949.
Female.
Member, League of Women Voters.
Died, in St. John's Riverside Hospital,
Yonkers, Westchester
County, N.Y., December
31, 1957 (age about 76
years).
Burial location unknown.
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