Edith Nourse Rogers

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Edith Nourse Rogers

Edith Nourse Rogers (born March 19, 1881 in Saco , Maine , †  September 10, 1960 in Boston , Massachusetts ) was an American politician . Between 1925 and 1960 she represented the state of Massachusetts in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Edith Nourse, her maiden name, attended Rogers Hall School in Lowell and then Madame Julien’s School in the French capital Paris . Between 1917 and 1922 she volunteered for the American Red Cross . In 1922 and 1923 she was an inspector of hospitals for war veterans. She also served on the Rogers Hall School Board of Trustees .

Since 1907 she was married to the future Congressman John Jacob Rogers . After his death, she was elected as a candidate for the Republican Party in the due by-election for the fifth seat of Massachusetts as its successor to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where she took up her new mandate on June 30, 1925. After 16 re-elections, she could remain in Congress until her death on September 10, 1960 . She was one of the first women in Congress and the first woman from Massachusetts. To date, she holds the tenure record for female congressmen. Between 1947 and 1955 she was chairman of the veterans committee. During her time in Congress, the New Deal laws of the federal government under President Franklin D. Roosevelt were passed there since 1933 . Since 1941, the work of the Congress was also shaped by the events of the Second World War and its consequences. Afterwards she experienced the beginning of the Cold War , the Korean War and domestically the civil rights movement in Congress .

Rogers campaigned among other things for veterans affairs. She was also involved in drafting the so-called GI Bill of Rights , passed in 1944 , which offered financial aid and training opportunities to soldiers returning from the war. Edith Rogers also helped found the Women's Army Auxilary Corps (WAAC) in 1942 . In 1943, she also helped found the Women's Army Corps (WAC), which allowed women to enter the military in certain areas. During the Cold War, she supported both the House Un-American Activities Committee and US Senator Joseph McCarthy .

Edith Rogers died in Boston on September 10, 1960, in the middle of an election campaign for re-election. She was buried at her husband's side in Lowell.

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SURNAME Rogers, Edith Nourse
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Saco , Maine
DATE OF DEATH September 10, 1960
Place of death Boston , Massachusetts