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| Affiliation | Republican |
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1965-01-01 |
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| Name | Margaret Chase Smith |
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Skowhegan, Maine , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
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December 14, 1897
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| Died | May 29, 1995
(97 years)
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| Contributor | Wishful Thinking |
| Last Modifed | RBH
Dec 15, 2020 07:03pm |
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English - French - Quebecois - Widowed -
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| Info | (wife of Clyde Harold Smith)
Born Margaret Madeline Chase, December 14, 1897, in Skowhegan, Somerset County, Maine; attended the public schools; taught school in Skowhegan, Maine, in 1916 and 1917; business executive for country weekly newspaper and a woolen company 1919-1930; secretary to husband while he was in Congress 1937-1940; lieutenant colonel, Air Force Reserve 1950-1958; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-sixth Congress, by special election, June 3, 1940, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of her husband, Clyde H. Smith; reelected to the four succeeding Congresses and served from June 3, 1940, to January 3, 1949; was not a candidate for reelection but was elected in 1948 to the United States Senate; reelected in 1954, 1960, and again in 1966, and served January 3, 1949, until January 3, 1973; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1972; chairwoman, Special Committee on Rates of Compensation (1953-55), Republican Conference (1967-1972), ranking Republican member on Armed Services Committee (1967-73), ranking Republican member on Aeronautical and Space Sciences Committee (1963-71)); first woman to be placed in nomination for the presidency at a major party convention, 1964; visiting professor for the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation 1973-1976; received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1989; was a resident of Skowhegan, Maine, until her death on May 29, 1995; remains were cremated, and ashes placed in the residential wing of the Margaret Chase Smith Library, Skowhegan, Maine.
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