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Pol_070103_Women_Milestones.sPubDate = "1/3/2007 6:25:33 PM GMT";
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Pol_070103_Women_Milestones.appHeader = "fact file|WOMEN'S MILESTONES IN US POLITICS<br>";
Pol_070103_Women_Milestones.appFooter = "Source: Center for American Women and Politics";
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Pol_070103_Women_Milestones[i-1].body = "Jeanette Rankin, R-Mont., became the first woman elected to the House.";

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Pol_070103_Women_Milestones[i-1].body = "The 19th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified, granting women the right to vote.";

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Pol_070103_Women_Milestones[i-1].body = "Rebecca Latimer Felton, D-Ga., became the first woman to serve in the Senate. She was appointed to fill temporarily a vacant seat and served for only two days.";

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Pol_070103_Women_Milestones[i-1].body = "Nellie Tayloe Ross, D-Wyo., became the first woman governor, after she was elected to replace her deceased husband.";

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Pol_070103_Women_Milestones[i-1].body = "Rep. Mae Ella Nolan, R-Calif., became the first woman to chair a congressional committee, when she headed the committee on expenditures in the Post Office Department.";

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Pol_070103_Women_Milestones[i-1].body = "Sen. Hattie Wyatt Caraway, D-Ark., was appointed to the Senate to succeed her deceased husband. She later became the first woman elected to the Senate.";

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Pol_070103_Women_Milestones[i-1].body = "Frances Perkins became the first woman to serve in the Cabinet, when President Roosevelt appointed her secretary of labor.";

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Pol_070103_Women_Milestones[i-1].body = "Sandra Day O'Connor became the first woman on the Supreme Court.";

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Pol_070103_Women_Milestones[i-1].body = "Rep. Geraldine A. Ferraro, D-N.Y., became the first woman to run on a major party's national ticket, when she was selected by Democrat Walter Mondale as his vice presidential running mate.";

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Pol_070103_Women_Milestones[i-1].body = "Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., becomes first female speaker of the House this week. She became the first woman to head her party in Congress when she was elected House minority leader in 2002.";

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