- In 1974 this woman from Des Moines, Iowa was the first woman to accept the chairmanship of a major political party.
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Carrie Chapman Catt
Jesse Field Shambaugh
Mary Louise Smith
Amelia Jenks Bloomer
- The newspaper she edited called for"Emancipation of women from Intemperance, Injustice and Bigotry". She championed a reform in women's dress and an apparel item took on her name. She was?
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Jesse Field Shambaugh
Mary Louise Smith
Amelia Jenks Bloomer
Carrie Chapman Catt
- She worked during her life to take the word "male" out of the U.S.Constitution. She championed women's rights, especially the right to vote.
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Carrie Chapman Catt
Jesse Field Shambaugh
Mary Louise Smith
Amelia Jenks Bloomer
- She was born in Ohio but she made Keokuk, Iowa her home. During the Civil War she helped found the Keokuk Society which gathered medical supplies for the Iowa military. She later started an orphange plan for Iowa. Later yet she saw the need for diet kitchens and was instrumental in these being established in over 200 military hospitals. Finally she helped organize the WCTU.
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Judi Sheppard Missett
Annie Wittenmeyer
Arabella Babb Mansfield
Jesse Field Shambaugh
- She attended Western Normal College in Shenedoah but left during her spohmore year to take a job teaching in a country school. There she began boy's and girl's clubs to educate the young folks about farm skills & knowledge. She eventually finished her college career and took the job of superintendent in page county. there she continued her clubs and developed a clover symbol to reward the students achievments. This led to the establishment of the 4H movement.
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Arabella Babb Mansfield
Annie Wittenmeyer
Jesse Field Shambaugh
Judi Sheppard Missett
- She was the first woman to sit on the Iowa executive council. As Iowa's Secretary of State she developed a deep concern for highway safety. She expanded the duties of the 15 motor vehicle inspectors to include enforcementof safety regulations. The next year, 1935, the Iowa Higway Patrol was created. The woman who oversaw this improvement was...
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Judi Sheppard Missett
Viola Babcock Miller
Esther P. Friedman
Arabella Babb Mansfield
- Raised in Sioux City with her twin sister, she and her sister went through high school and college together. Then they were married in a dual wedding ceremony. They finally separated as "Ann" went to Chicago and took a job replacing the advice columnist "Ann Landers". She was...
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Winifrid Jacobsen
Cynthia Jacobsen
Esther P. Friedman
Pauline E. Friedman
- In 1869 when she passed the bar exam in Henry county, this woman became the first woman lawyer in the United States. She later chaired the first Iowa Suffrage Association state convention in 1870. She was...
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Winifrid Jacobsen
Arabella Mansfield
Pauline Friedman
Jane Smiley
- She believed a woman should get the same pay as a man. She practiced this idea as she held many positions eventually becoming the first woman superintendent of schools. Later she became the first female professor at UI and still later the first woman elected to to lead the Iowa State Teachers Association. She was...
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Phebe Sudlow
Kate Shelley
Arabella Mansfield
Mona Van Duyn
- In 1881 a 16 yr old Iowa girl was rewarded for preventing a train accident. After a storm had weakened a railroad trestle and a train went into Honey Creek, she went for aid to warn the oncoming train and to get help for the engineer and fireman of the wrecked train. She received a gold watch and $200 for her efforts on a stormy, rainy night. She was...
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Phebe Sudlow
Jane Smiley
Kate Shelley
Mona Van Duyn