Virginia E. Jenckes
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Virginia E. Jenckes
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Virginia Jenckes served three terms as a U.S. Representative from Indiana's Sixth Congressional District. The Terre Haute, Indiana, native was the first woman from Indiana to be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. Alongside Kathryn O'Loughlin McCarthy, she was the second woman Representative from the Midwest and the first who was not succeeding a male relative. In 1937 she became the first American woman appointed as a U.S. delegate to the Inter-Parliamentary Union in Paris, France. Th
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American politician (1877–1975)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_E._Jenckes
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2023-07-31T06:13:37Z
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