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Women ARE the Republican Party
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SUSAN B. ANTHONY
Republican Susan B. Anthony played a pivotal role in the introduction of women's suffrage in the United States. Along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, she drafted the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which gave women the right to vote, and introduced it in 1878 by way of U.S. Sen. A.A. Sargent (R-CA). Unfortunately, Anthony did not live to see the amendment ratified in 1920.
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CATHY McMORRIS RODGERS
As vice chair of the House Republican Conference, Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers of Washington is the highest-ranking Republican woman in the U.S. House of Representatives. Rodgers grew up on a family farm, worked at a small business, and is now a wife and mom. Her chief goal is preserving and expanding the American Dream for our children and grandchildren.
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CLARE BOOTH LUCE
In 1952, conservative Republican Clare Booth Luce was the first woman appointed as U.S. ambassador to a major power - Italy (appointed by Republican President Dwight Eisenhower). Luce also served as a U.S. Congresswoman from the State of Connecticut and had a long and distinguished career as a playwright, journalist, foreign correspondent and lecturer.
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SHARON DAY
As co-chairman of the Republican National Committee, Sharon Day is a distinguished leader who provides a voice for Republicans across the nation. She also is Florida's national committeewoman and has served the Republican Party at the local, state and national levels for more than 20 years.
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MARION MARTIN
In 1938, during her tenure as assistant chairman of the Republican National Committee, Marion Martin of Maine founded the National Federation of Republican Women in an effort to unify and give a national voice to the many Republican women's organizations already in existence throughout the nation and to attract new women into Republican politics.
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NIKKI HALEY
Nikki Haley is the first woman to serve as governor of South Carolina, and the second Indian-American governor in the country. At the age of 40, she also is the nation's youngest current governor. This mother of two is a strong fiscal conservative who cut her political teeth in the state legislature and is now being discussed as potential vice presidential material.
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JEANNETTE RANKIN
The first woman elected to the U.S. Congress was Republican Jeannette Rankin of Montana. Rankin was elected in 1916 at the height of the suffrage movement, and four years before the 19th Amendment was ratified giving U.S. women the right to vote. "I may be the first woman Member of Congress," she observed, "but I won't be the last."
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KELLY AYOTTE
In what was her first run for public office, Kelly Ayotte was elected to the U.S. Senate from New Hampshire in 2010. Previously, she served five years as the state's attorney general, during which time she successfully argued Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood of Northern New England before the U.S. Supreme Court and fought to pass tough new laws cracking down on sexual predators.
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MARGARET CHASE SMITH
For more than three decades, Republican Margaret Chase Smith of Maine blazed quite a trail for women in politics. She was the first woman to win election to both the U.S. House and U.S. Senate, and also the first woman to have her name placed in nomination for the U.S. presidency by either of the two major parties. In 1989, she was honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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SANDY ADAMS
Sandy Adams was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Florida's 24th district in 2010, after serving eight years in the Florida state legislature and more than 17 years as a deputy sheriff in Orange County. A survivor of domestic violence from her first marriage, Adams has taken a lead role in ensuring the Violence Against Women Act is reauthorized by the U.S. Congress.
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