Caroline Love Goodwin O'Day

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Caroline Love Goodwin O'Day

Caroline Love Goodwin O'Day (born June 22, 1875 in Perry , Houston County , Georgia , †  January 4, 1943 in Rye , New York ) was an American politician . Between 1935 and 1943 she represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Caroline O'Day attended private schools and the Lucy Cobb Institute in Athens . She then studied art in Paris , Munich and the Netherlands . She later lived in Rye, New York State, where she became president of the school board. Politically, she joined the Democratic Party . From 1916 to 1920, she was vice party chairman for New York State. Between 1923 and 1942 she was once again a member of the state executive committee of her party as Associate Chairman . From 1924 to 1936 she participated as a delegate at all Democratic National Conventions . She was also head of the State Committee on Social Welfare from 1923 to 1934.

In the 1934 congressional election , O'Day was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in a state-wide constituency of New York , where she took up her new mandate on January 3, 1935. After three re-elections, she was able to complete four legislative terms in Congress by January 3, 1943 . During her tenure in Congress, most of the Roosevelt government's New Deal laws were passed there. In 1935 the provisions of the 20th Amendment to the Constitution were applied for the first time , according to which the legislative period of the Congress ends or begins on January 3rd. Since 1941, the work of Congress was also shaped by the events of World War II . Since 1937, Caroline O'Day was chairman of the Election Committee ( Committee on Election of President, Vice President, and Representatives ). In 1942 she decided not to run again.

Caroline O'Day died in Rye on January 4, 1943, one day after the end of her last legislative term. Since 1901 she was married to Daniel O'Day, who was on the board of the Standard Oil Company .

Remarks

  1. ↑ official information at the congress; According to this biography , her date of birth is uncertain, but probably 1869

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personal data
SURNAME O'Day, Caroline Love Goodwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Perry , Georgia
DATE OF DEATH January 4, 1943
Place of death Rye , New York