RARE "1st Democratic Congresswoman" Chase Woodhouse Signed TLS For Sale

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RARE "1st Democratic Congresswoman" Chase Woodhouse Signed TLS:
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Up for sale a VERY RARE! "1st Demacratic Congresswoman" Chase Woodhouse Signed TLS Dated 1964. 

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Chase

Going Woodhouse (March

3, 1890 – December 12, 1984) was a prominent feminist leader, suffragist, and

educator. She served as a member of the United

States House of Representatives representing the Second

Congressional District of Connecticut, becoming the second Congresswoman from

Connecticut and the first elected as a Democrat. Woodhouse

was born in Victoria, British Columbia,

Canada. She attended Science Hill School, Shelbyville, Kentucky and

finished in 1908. She went to study at McGill University, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree with

honors in 1912 and a Masters of Arts degree with Honors in 1914, both in

Economics. She then studied at the University of Berlin and

the University of Chicago.

After graduating from McGill University, she began her career as a college professor

and spent part of it as a well-known political figure in the women's suffrage

movement and later in the Democratic Party of the State of Connecticut. While serving as a fellow in political economics

at the University of Chicago,

Chase Going met and eventually married a professor of government there, Edward

Woodhouse. They had two children, Noel and Margaret. In her early professional

career, she was a senior economist at the Bureau of Home Economics, United

States Department of Agriculture, from 1926 to 1928. Shortly after

moving to New London, Connecticut in 1934, Woodhouse registered to vote as a

Democrat. In 1940, she was the first Democratic woman to be elected as

Secretary of State for Connecticut, serving one term. She also served as chair of the New London,

Democratic Town Committee in 1942 and 1943. During World War II Woodhouse was a consultant for the National

Roster of Scientific and Specialized Personnel, War Manpower Commission, from

1942 to 1944. As a feminist leader, she became president of the Connecticut

Federation of Democratic Women's Clubs, which is the oldest federation of

Democratic Women's Clubs in the nation, from 1943 to 1948,.While teaching

economics at Connecticut College,

Woodhouse began her electoral campaign for the United States Congress. She was

elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-Ninth Congress and served from January 3,

1945 to January 3, 1947. She defeated Republican, John D. McWilliams from

Norwich, with a plurality of 3,046

compared to McWilliams plurality of 2,492. In this election many cities in

Eastern Connecticut, like Norwich and New London, voted Democrat for Woodhouse,

while smaller towns voted Republican. While in office, she was a political activist

for women's advancement in careers beyond education, focusing on combining

motherhood and feminism. Woodhouse introduced the bill, "H.R.

1584", to the subcommittee of the House Committee on Education and Labor,

which identified unequal labor practices and wages between men and women. She

ran for reelection to the Eightieth Congress in November 1946 but was defeated.

While out of office, she resumed her women's advocacies. She became Executive

Director of the Women's Division of the Democratic National

Committee (DNC), based in Washington, D.C., in 1947 and 1948. Democrats, like President Harry Truman believed Woodhouse was a valuable

link to women voters and encouraged this appointment. Woodhouse then successfully run again and

served in the Eighty-First Congress from January 3, 1949 to January 3, 1951,

after defeating Horace-Seely Brown in

1948. She was also a visiting expert on the staff of General Lucius D. Clay, Allied Military Governor of Germany, in 1948. She

was defeated for reelection to the Eighty-Second Congress in the November 1950

elections. She returned as congresswoman from Connecticut following the 1952

elections. Woodhouse was appointed to the Banking and Currency Committee while serving in the

United States Congress. She was special consultant to the Director of

Price Stabilization, from 1951 to 1953. Woodhouse began serving as the director

of the Auerbach Service Bureau for Connecticut Organizations in Hartford in

1954. She was also a member of the Permanent Commission on the Status of

Women and served on the Connecticut Humanities Council. She served as a

delegate to the Connecticut State Constitutional Convention in 1965. In 1967,

she was chairman of the Governor's Committee on the Status of Women. She

then served as a member of the Advisory Committee to the State Department of

Community Affairs from 1967 until 1972. Woodhouse was also a member of

Comprehensive Health Planning Council, the Steering Committee of the

Connecticut Mental Health Planning Project, the Advisory Council to the Board

of Mental Health, the Connecticut Humanities Council, and the State Commission

of Housing and New Communities. As a staunch feminist, Woodhouse regularly

contributed to Planned Parenthood and

was an early proponent of environmental legislation. She earned the

prestigious Ella T. Grasso Award for Outstanding Service at the end of her

professional career.

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