Blogs Posts in Famous Women In Politics category; 91 blog posts

Bertha Ryland

The television program "Antiques Roadshow", produced by the BBC and seen in the US on the PBS network, in 2000 featured as its "Antique of the Week" a silver medal in its presentation case, being offered on the auction b [...]

Posted On : Mar, 30 2007 | Comments : 0

Dolly Madison

Dolly Madison

 "Dolly Madison," Dorothea "Dolly" Payne was born on May 20th, 1768 in Guilford County, North Carolina to John Payne and Mary Coles. On September 15, 1794 she married James Madison, Jr. the fourth President of the U [...]

Posted On : Mar, 30 2007 | Comments : 0

Hillary Rodham Clinton -First Lady of the United States, 1993-2001

Hillary Rodham Clinton -First Lady of the United States, 199...

Hillary Rodham Clinton was born on 26 October 1947 in Chicago, Illinois. The wife of President Bill Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2000, becoming the first Lady ever elected to national office. After gradu [...]

Posted On : Mar, 30 2007 | Comments : 0

Indira Gandhi

Indira Gandhi

Indira Gandhi was born in Allahabad, in the state of Uttar Pradesh. She was the first women Prime Minister and an important world stateswoman. She was the only child of Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India. She was a great cr [...]

Posted On : Mar, 29 2007 | Comments : 0

Katharine Bement Davis

Katharine Bement Davis

Katharine Bement Davis’ appointment as New York City Correction Commissioner on Jan. 1, 1914, made news across the country and around the world. For the first time in the city’s history a woman had been named to run a major muni [...]

Posted On : Mar, 29 2007 | Comments : 0

Lucretia Hart

Lucretia Hart

Lucretia Hart was born in Hagerstown, Maryland, on March 18, 1781 and was the youngest daughter of Colonel Thomas and Susanna Gray Hart. She married Henry Clay, (1777-1852) who had a long political career and was U.S. Diplomat, U.S. Congres [...]

Posted On : Mar, 29 2007 | Comments : 0

Women gaining positions in African Parliaments

Women gaining positions in African Parliaments

About half of the parliamentarians in Rwanda are women; many other African countries have more women in parliament than some western ones. It's taken some doing, as Gertrude Mongella knows - and as she tells in an interview. When she was [...]

Posted On : Mar, 21 2007 | Comments : 0
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