Marguerite S. Church

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Marguerite S. Church

Marguerite Stitt Church (born September 13, 1892 in New York City , †  May 26, 1990 in Evanston , Illinois ) was an American politician . From 1951 to 1963 she represented the state of Illinois in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Marguerite Church attended St. Agatha School in New York and then from 1910 to 1914 Wellesley College in Massachusetts . Until 1917 she studied at Columbia University in New York. In the meantime she worked as a teacher. In the following years she worked as a psychologist. She married Congressman Ralph E. Church . Like him, she became a member of the Republican Party .

In the 1950 congressional election , Church in the 13th constituency of Illinois was elected to the House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where she succeeded her late husband on January 3, 1951. Reelected five times, she completed six legislative terms in Congress by January 3, 1963 . During this time, among other things, the Korean War and the beginning of the civil rights movement fell . In 1961 she was a member of the American delegation to the General Assembly of the United Nations . The following year she decided not to run for another congressional candidacy.

In July 1964, Church attended the Republican National Convention in San Francisco as a delegate . She was also a member of the federal board of the Girl Scouts of America . Marguerite Church died on May 26, 1990 in Evanston.

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