Margaret Chase Smith ( born Margaret Chase Smith ; ( , - , ) is an American politician who represented the state of Maine in both houses of Congress [5] .
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Biography
Childhood and Youth
Margaret Madeleine Chase is the daughter of George Emery Chase and his wife Kerry Murray. She graduated from elementary school in her hometown of Skauhigan [6] . In 1916-1917 she worked as an assistant to a teacher [7] , later worked at a telephone exchange, as a journalist in the weekly Independent Reporter, and as a secretary [8] . Margaret began her first public appearances in the 1920s, upholding the equal rights of women.
Political career
In 1930, she married 21-year-old Republican politician Clyde Smith [9] , who since January 1937 became a member of the Maine state in the US House of Representatives [10] . Margaret Chase-Smith received her first political experience as an adviser to her husband. After her husband’s early death in April 1940, she took office in the First House of the US Parliament [11] . She was entrenched in the reputation of an emancipated woman who supported the interests of the American army during World War II , working in the committee of maritime affairs [12] .
Eight years later, when Chase Smith was in the House of Representatives, she successfully won a seat in the US Senate . When Chase Smith entered the Senate in January 1949, she was the first woman in Congress history to be elected to both houses.
He opposed the policy of McCarthyism [13] .
During her tenure as a senator, Chase Smith visited 23 countries of the world and met with politicians such as Winston Churchill , Conrad Adenauer , Vyacheslav Molotov and Charles de Gaulle and others. In 1960, she successfully participated in the election against Democrat Lucia Cormier, a member of the House of Representatives of the State of Maine, for a seat in the Senate. It was the first two-woman election campaign in Senate history. In 1964, she tried to run for the presidency from Republicans in the presidential election . However, could not get this right.
Recently, Margaret was considered a supporter of the Vietnam War and the policies of Richard Nixon [14] .
Margaret Chase-Smith was re-elected three times, spent 24 years in the Senate and left him on January 3, 1973. During her tenure in the Senate, she voted in favor of the 2941 bill.
Further Life
After finishing work in the Senate and moving away from politics, Margaret lectured at US universities for three years as a visiting professor. Awarded at least 95 honorary degrees, including Doctors of Law, University of Rutgers . In July 1989, US President George W. Bush introduced her to the Presidential Medal for Freedom [15] .
After the death of her husband in 1940, she did not enter into marriage anymore. I had no children.
Margaret Chase-Smith died after a short illness in May 1995, at the age of 97 [16] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 BNF identifier : Open Data Platform 2011.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Encyclopædia Britannica
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 SNAC - 2010.
- ↑ http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000590
- ↑ SMITH, Margaret Chase - Biographical Information . bioguide.congress.gov. Date of treatment March 13, 2019.
- ↑ Current Biography Yearbook. - HW Wilson Company , 1971. - Vol. VI.
- ↑ Gutgold, Nichola D. Paving the Way for Madam President. - Lexington Books, 2006.
- ↑ Margaret Chase Smith , Encyclopædia Britannica .
- ↑ Smith, Margaret Chase , Women in Congress .
- ↑ Current Biography Yearbook. - HW Wilson Company , 1971. - Vol. VI.
- ↑ Smith, Margaret Chase , Women in Congress .
- ↑ First Woman Elected to Both Houses of Congress , Senate Stories .
- ↑ The Woman Who Said 'No' to McCarthy . The Attic . Date of treatment July 9, 2018.
- ↑ Hodgson, Godfrey . OBITUARIES: Margaret Chase Smith , The Independent (June 3, 1995).
- ↑ SMITH, Margaret Chase, (1897–1995) , Biographical Directory of the United States Congress .
- ↑ Severo, Richard . Margaret Chase Smith Is Dead at 97; Maine Republican Made History Twice , The New York Times (May 30, 1995).