| LC control no. | n 79027051 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Caraway, Hattie Wyatt, 1878-1950 |
| Variant(s) | Wyatt, Hattie Ophelia, 1878-1950 |
| Birth date | 18780201 |
| Death date | 19501221 |
| Place of birth | Bakerville (Tenn.) |
| Place of death | Falls Church (Va.) |
| Affiliation | United States. Congress. Senate United States. Employees' Compensation Commission United States. Employees' Compensation Appeals Board Democratic Party (U.S.) |
| Profession or occupation | Legislators female |
| Found in | U.S. Congress. Senate. Committee on commerce. Protection of oyster culture in Alaska ... 1937: page 1 (Mrs. Caraway) Online biographical dir. of the U.S. Congress, July 22, 2008 (Caraway, Hattie Wyatt; d. Falls Church, Va., Dec. 21, 1950) Wikipedia, May 18, 2011 (Hattie Caraway; Hattie Ophelia Wyatt Caraway, 1878-1950; was the first woman elected to serve as a United States Senator. Senator Caraway represented Arkansas) Bio. dir. of the U.S. Congress website, Sept. 24, 2013 (Caraway, Hattie Wyatt, (wife of Thaddeus Horatius Caraway), a Senator from Arkansas; born in Bakerville, Humphreys County, Tenn., February 1, 1878; attended the public schools and graduated from Dickson (Tenn.) Normal College in 1896; thereafter located in Jonesboro, Ark.; appointed as a Democrat on November 13, 1931, and subsequently elected on January 12, 1932, to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of her husband, Thaddeus H. Caraway; reelected in 1932 and 1938 and served from November 13, 1931, to January 3, 1945; unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1944; first woman elected to the United States Senate; chairwoman, Committee on Enrolled Bills (Seventy-third through Seventy-eighth Congresses); member of the United States Employees' Compensation Commission 1945-1946; member of the Employees' Compensation Appeals Board from July 1946 until her death in Falls Church, Va., December 21, 1950; interment in West Lawn Cemetery, Jonesboro, Ark. ) |
| Associated language | eng |
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