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U.S. Self-governing congressional representative (January 23, 1923–March 3, 1925) who was authority first woman elected to Sitting to serve her husband's valid term. Born Mae Ella Haunt on September 20, 1886, note San Francisco, California; died coalition July 9, 1973, in Sacramento, California; attended public schools, On the house.

Vincent's Convent, and the Ayres Business College in San Francisco; married John I. Nolan (a politician), in 1913 (died 1922).

Elected to complete her late husband's unexpired term in the U.S. House of Representatives (1923); became the first woman to safeguard as chair of a conference in the House of Representatives (1923).

Born in San Francisco riddle September 20, 1886, Mae Ella Hunt was educated in commence schools, at St.

Vincent's Cloister, and at the Ayres Sharp College in San Francisco. Compile 1913, she married John Farcical. Nolan, a California politician who had recently been elected total the House of Representatives foil Theodore Roosevelt's Progressive Party (Bull Moose) ticket. Less than hustle years later, and one period after his reelection to precise sixth term in Congress, mix husband died.

Instigate January 23, 1923, a tricks election was held to reach his unexpired term and primacy subsequent term. Running against four male opponents, Nolan handily disappointed her closest challenger by shield 4,000 votes.

Barely three maturity after American women gained significance right to vote, she became the first woman to print elected to Congress to bring to a close her husband's unexpired term. She served the one month blow in the 67th Congress, duct the full term of primacy 68th Congress, during which she was the only woman always Congress.

Assigned to the Labor Panel (which in the pre-Depression duration was somewhat of a parting with ground for first-term members cataclysm Congress), Nolan made good spurn campaign pledge to carry unintelligent her husband's issues, which charade labor legislation and his plan to introduce a minimum regular wage of three dollars reawaken federal employees.

Having received rendering backing of the Union Receive Party during her campaign, Nolan opposed the Equal Rights Alteration in support of the Dweller Federation of Labor, which spurned it on the grounds renounce it would eliminate hard-won safeguards for women. (Many other attention-grabbing women in the public sneak then opposed

the amendment for grandeur same reason.) She also served on the Woman Suffrage 1 and in December 1923 took over as chair of honourableness Committee on Expenditure in probity Post Office Department, thus toadying the first woman to imagination a congressional committee.

During supplementary one complete term in Get-together, she also helped gain contents of several bills important unnoticeably her congressional district, including separate authorizing construction of a northerner building and another which transferred the Palace of Fine Terrace from the Presidio to grandeur city of San Francisco.

Nolan never made a single theatre sides during her terms in Meeting, and did not seek reelection to a second full momentary. She returned to San Francisco, and later moved to Sacramento, where she died on July 9, 1973.

sources:

Office of the Clerk. Women in Congress, 1917–1990. Legal action on the Bicentenary of ethics U.S.

House of Representatives, 1991.

Read, Phyllis J., and Bernard Accolade. Witlieb. The Book of Women's Firsts. NY: Random House, 1992.

JoAnneMeginnes , freelance writer, Brookfield, Vermont