| LC control no. | n 97866153 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Shouse, Catherine Filene |
| Variant(s) | Filene, Catherine |
| Biography/History note | Catherine Filene Shouse (June 9, 1896 - December 14, 1994) was a researcher and philanthropist. She graduated in 1918 from Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts. She worked for the Women's Division of the U.S. Employment Service of the Department of Labor, and was the first woman appointed to the Democratic National Committee in 1925. She was also the editor of the Woman's National Democratic Committee's Bulletin (1929-32), and the first woman to chair the Federal Prison for Women Board. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Filene_Shouse> |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1896-06-09 |
| Death date | 1994-12-14 |
| Place of birth | Boston (Mass.) |
| Place of death | Naples (Fla.) |
| Special note | Founder of Wolf Trap Farm Park, Vienna, Va. Data contributed by the Dance Heritage Coalition for the New York Public Library Dance Collection. |
| Found in | Careers for women, 1934: t.p. (Catherine Filene) *MGZA Dance magazine. Nov 1973, p 12. Papers of Catherine Shouse Filene, 1878-1998, finding aid, viewed March 18, 2016: Biography (Catherine (Filene) Shouse, author of Careers for women, owner of Wolf Trap farm) Wikimedia data, found via Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Filene_Shouse, March 18, 2016 (sex or gender: female; place of birth: Boston; country of citizenship: United States of America; instance of: human; place of death: Naples; date of birth: +1896-06-09T00:00:00Z; date of death: +1994-12-14T00:00:00Z; award received: Presidential Medal of Freedom; award received: National Medal of Arts; award received: Grand Merit Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany; award received: National Women's Hall of Fame; educated at: Harvard University; given name: Catherine; member of political party: Democratic Party; spouse: Jouett Shouse; labels: Catherine Filene Shouse; descriptions: US-amerikanische Frauenrechtlerin und Kunstmäzen; American philanthropist: ; aliases: Filene Shouse) <http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1050966> |
| Invalid LCCN | no2002085889 |
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