Virginia Ellis Jenckes
Indiana's First Female Congresswoman
| Description: |
Picture of Virginia Jenckes, Indianas first woman elected to the United States House of Representatives. She served from March 4, 1933 to January 3, 1939. |
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| Origin: | 2005 |
| Contributor(s): |
From the Biographical Directory of the US Congress: 'JENCKES, Virginia Ellis, a Representative from Indiana; born in Terre Haute, Vigo County, Ind., November 6, 1877; attended the public and high schools; engaged in agricultural pursuits in 1912; secretary of Wabash Maumee Valley Improvement Association, 1926-1932; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-third and to the two succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1933-January 3, 1939); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1938 to the Seventy-sixth Congress; United States delegate to the Interparliamentary Union in Paris, France, in 1937; after leaving Congress, remained in Washington, D.C., for many years and worked for the American Red Cross; returned to her native Terre Haute, Ind., in the early 1970s; died in Terre Haute, Ind., January 9, 1975; interment in Highland Lawn Cemetery'. |
| Source: |
http://indianamemory.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/vchs/id/185 |
| Collection: |
Vigo County Historical Society |
| Rights: | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/ |
| Copyright: |
Copyright Undetermined |
| Subjects: |
Jenckes, Virginia Ellis, 1877-1975 Legislators Women Portraits Portrait photographs Famous Hoosiers Politics |
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