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Very incomplete list!   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. 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 (speaker), 1960 (alternate). Female. Methodist. Member, American Association of University Women; Pi Lambda Theta. Died in Oxford, Talbot County, Md., January 14, 1983 (age 76 years, 143 days). Interment at Parsons Cemetery, Salisbury, Md.   Relatives: Daughter of Edna May (Sheppard) Adkins and Frederick Paul Adkins; niece of Elijah Dale Adkins; first cousin of Elijah Dale Adkins Jr.; first cousin once removed of Wallace Henry White and Arthur Percival White; second cousin of Edward Homer White Jr.; second cousin twice removed of Merrill Henry Tilghman.   Political family: White-Dennis-Adkins family of Maryland.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial   Annie Webb Blanton (1870-1945) — of Austin, Travis County, Tex. Born in Houston, Harris County, Tex., August 19, 1870. 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.   Relatives: Daughter of Thomas Lindsay Blanton and Eugenia (Webb) Blanton; sister of Thomas Lindsay Blanton (1872-1957).   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. Socialist. 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. Burial location unknown.   Joyce A. Fadem (b. 1932) — also known as Joyce Abrams — of Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, Calif. Born in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, Calif., February 25, 1932. Democrat. College instructor; member of California Democratic State Committee, 1960-64, 1966-72; secretary of California Democratic Party, 1963-67; alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from California, 1964. Female. Jewish. Member, Phi Beta Kappa; Pi Lambda Theta; Pi Gamma Mu; Pi Sigma Alpha. Still living as of 1973.   Relatives: Daughter of Arthur J. Abrams and Regina (Goodman) Abrams; married, June 17, 1951, to Jerrold A. Fadem.   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; candidate for U.S. Representative from New York 42nd District, 1948, 1950. Female. Episcopalian. Member, Pi Lambda Theta. Burial location unknown. 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. 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.   Relatives: Daughter of Seymour Going and Harriet (Jackson) Going; married to E. J. Woodhouse.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial   Image source: Connecticut Register and Manual 1950

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