MY SAY: REPUBLICAN WOMEN SUCEEDED LONG BEFORE THE WOMENISTAS
Margaret Madeline Chase Smith (December 14, 1897 – May 29, 1995) was a member of the Republican Party who served as a U.S Representative (1940-1949) and a U.S. Senator (1949-1973) from Maine.
She was the first woman to serve in both houses of the United States Congress, and the first woman to represent Maine in either. She is remembered for her 1950 speech, “Declaration of Conscience,” in which she criticized the tactics of McCarthyism. She was, incidentally quite wrong on the very serious communist infiltration of the corridors of power in the United States.
In 1964 she became the first woman to be placed in nomination for the presidency at the Republican convention.
There is absolutely no evidence that she ever burned her bra…..rsk
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