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Women in the US Congress

Women in the House of Representatives

By Jone Johnson Lewis, About.com

More than 200 women have served in the US Congress. Following is an index of these women, arranged by the year they first took office.

Jeannette Rankin

Alice Mary Robertson

Winnifred S. Huck

Mae Ella Nolan

Florence P. Kahn

Mary T. Norton

Edith Nourse Rogers

Katherine Gudger Langley

Ruth Hanna McCormick

Pearl Oldfield

Ruth Bryan Owen

Ruth Sears Pratt

Effiegene Locke Wingo

Willa McCord Blake Eslick

Marian Williams Clarke

Kathryn O’Loughlin McCarthy

Isabella S. Greenway

Virginia Ellis Jenckes

Caroline O’Day

Nan Wood Honeyman

Elizabeth H. Gasque

Clara G. McMillan

Jessie Sumner

Florence Reville Gibbs

Margaret Chase Smith

Frances Payne Bolton

Katharine Edgar Byron

Veronica Grace Boland

Winifred Claire Stanley

Clare Boothe Luce

Willa Lybrand Fulmer

Emily Taft Douglas

Chase Going Woodhouse

Helen Gahagan Douglas

Helen Douglas Mankin

Eliza Jane Pratt

Georgia Lee Lusk

Katharine St. George

Reva Beck Bosone

Cecil Murray Harden

Edna Flannery Kelly

Vera Daerr Buchanan

Ruth Thompson

Marguerite Stitt Church

Maude Elizabeth Kee

Gracie Bowers Pfost

Leonor K. Sullivan

Mary E. (Betty) Farrington

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