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Importance of Women's Votes by Representative Edith Nourse Rogers of Massachusetts, broadside

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0605
Finding aid note: Stored onsite at the Woodson Research Center.

Scope and Contents

Small broadside written by U.S. Representative Edith Nourse Rogers articulating an appeal to women voters to use their votes to "stabilize...this extraordinary era of experimental administration under which we have been living during the past four years."

Dates

  • ca. 1936

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This material is open for research.

Conditions Governing Access

Stored onsite at the Woodson Research Center.

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Permission to publish from this material must be facilitated through the Woodson Research Center.

Biographical / Historical

Edith Norse Rogers (1881-1960), Republican representative for the Fifth District in Massachusetts, was the sixth woman to be elected to Congress. She succeeded her husband who had represented the same district for 12 years; she would occupy her seat for 35 years, the longest of any woman representative (June 30, 1925 – September 10, 1960). While her gender was an issue during her first run for office, it was muted by the declaration that the "office seeks the woman" (rather than vice versa). That Edith Nourse Rogers and her husband had been firm supporters of suffrage remained unpublicized. Ten years later, Rogers encourages women to address themselves as a distinct voting block to issues which affect them. Suffragists had anticipated women would have, as a substantial percentage of the electorate, a powerful affect. Excerpted from Notable American Women: The Modern Period, pgs. 587-589.

Extent

0.1 Linear Feet ( (1 folder))

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Overview

Small broadside written by U.S. Representative Edith Nourse Rogers articulating an appeal to women voters to use their votes to "stabilize...this extraordinary era of experimental administration under which we have been living during the past four years."

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Purchased from E. Wharton & Co., 2012.

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Finding Aid & Administrative Information

Title
Guide to the Importance of Women's Votes by Representative Edith Nourse Rogers of Massachusetts, broadside, ca.1936
Status
Completed
Author
Amanda Focke
Date
2012
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin
Language of description note
English

Repository Details

Repository Details

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