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December 21, 1950
First
Female US Senator
Hattie
Ophelia Wyatt Caraway (February 1, 1878 – December 21, 1950) was the first
woman elected to serve a full term as a United States Senator. Senator Caraway
represented Arkansas. She was the first woman to preside over the Senate. She
won reelection to a full term in 1932.
After
being appointed in 1931 to fill a vacancy caused by the death of her late
husband, U.S. Senator Thaddeus Caraway for Arkansas, Mrs. Carraway won in a
special election to serve the remainder of his term, then ran in for
re-election in 1932, and served for two full terms before losing in the 1944
Democratic primary to J. William Fulbright .
Caraway
was a prohibitionist and voted against anti-lynching legislation along with
other Southern Democratic Senators. She was generally a supporter of Franklin
D. Roosevelt's economic recovery legislation. Caraway's defiance of the
Arkansas establishment in insisting that she was more than a temporary stand-in
for her husband enabled her to set a valuable precedent for women in politics. On
February 21, 2001, the United States Postal Service issued a 76¢ Distinguished
Americans series postage stamp in her honor. Her gravesite was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places on September 20, 2007.
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