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Northrup Bailey, Consuelo
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| Affiliation | Republican |
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| Name | Consuelo Northrup Bailey |
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Burlington, Vermont , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
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October 19, 1899
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| Died | September 09, 1976
(76 years)
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| Contributor | Joshua L. |
| Last Modifed | RBH
Oct 06, 2012 02:26am |
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| Info | Consuelo Bailey was bom on the Northrop family farm in Fairfield, Vt. She attended grade school in Sheldon and high school in St. Albans. Basketball and debating were extracurricular activities that she enjoyed. After graduating from high school in 1917, Consuelo attended the University of Vermont, majoring in law.
Her interest in law came about from watching her father study law. He never did take the bar exams. After her graduation from UVM, Consuelo taught Latin and History at Shelburne High School for one year. She then went on to receive a law degree at Boston University Law School. Her first political appointment was as the first woman city prosecutor for Burlington, Vermont. She held that position until February 1927.
As states attorney for Chittenden County, she became the first woman lawyer in Vermont to try a murder case, which ended in a conviction. Consuelo enjoyed being States Attorney more than anything else she had ever done. She was admitted to legal practice in the Vermont Supreme Court in 1926 and inthe U.S. District Court in 1927.
Mrs. Bailey served on many committees. She was on the social security legislation committee, leader of the Thomas E. Dewey for President movement, director of the Vermont Association for the Blind, and the Republican National Committee of which she became vice-chairman. Politics were a very big part of Consuelo's life. When she campaigned for Speaker of the Vt. House of Representatives in 1952, she went door-to-door to win votes.
On January 7, 1953 she was elected. "Mrs. Speaker of the House" was what she was known by. Being elected to this position was a great accomplishment for a woman. On January 16, 1954, she announced her candidacy for the Republican nomination of lieutenant governor of Vermont. She was the first woman in the United States to be elected Lieutenant Governor in her own right.
Consuelo Northrop married Henry Albon Bailey, a Burlington, Vermont attorney on September 2, 1940. During her free time, she enjoyed horseback riding and collecting blue and white Bennington china. When Consuelo Bailey died in 1976, she was memorialized by a portrait by Stanley Marc Wright that was placed on the wall of the Lieutenant Governor's office.
Consuelo did much to pave the way for women in politics. In her own words "If the day ever comes when a woman can be elected or appointed to a prominent position without people being surprised and having much comment about it, then we will have arrived-and not before
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