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    Margaret Madeline Chase Smith (née Chase; December 14, 1897 – May 29, 1995) was an American politician. A member of the Republican Party, she served as...
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    included Dudley Chase, Champion S. Chase, Dudley Chase Denison, and Margaret Chase Smith. Though the Chase politicians were perhaps best known, the family...
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    Conscience was a Cold War speech made by U.S. Senator from Maine, Margaret Chase Smith on June 1, 1950, less than four months after Senator Joseph McCarthy's...
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  • the holiday had been defeated by Congress. In 1957, Maine Senator Margaret Chase Smith wrote a proposal accusing Congress of ignoring fathers for 40 years...
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    of Parliament for Stockport Margaret Beckett (born 1943), British Member of Parliament for Derby South Margaret Chase Smith (1897–1995), was the first...
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  • Schools Margaret Bayard Smith (1778–1844), American author Margaret Charles Smith (1906–2004), African-American midwife Margaret Chase Smith (1897–1995)...
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    John W. Byrnes – 299,612 (5.07%) William Scranton – 245,401 (4.15%) Margaret Chase Smith – 227,007 (3.84%) Richard Nixon – 197,212 (3.33%) Unpledged – 173...
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    Roosevelt Florence Sabin Margaret Chase Smith Elizabeth Cady Stanton Helen Brooke Taussig Harriet Tubman 1976 Abigail Adams Margaret Mead Mildred "Babe" Didrikson...
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    was held on November 7, 1972. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Margaret Chase Smith ran for re-election to a fifth term, but was defeated by Democrat...
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  • woman to win election to the Senate, representing Arkansas. In 1949, Margaret Chase Smith began her service in the Senate; she was the first woman to serve...
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    presidential nomination at the 1848 convention of the Liberty Party. Margaret Chase Smith announced her candidacy for the Republican Party nomination in 1964...
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    both legally moved to remove themselves from consideration. Senator Margaret Chase Smith of neighboring Maine, the first woman to campaign for a major party...
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    United States Senate and defeated four-term Republican incumbent Margaret Chase Smith in a considerable upset. In 1973, Hathaway was one of the three senators...
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    Republican U.S. Senator Margaret Chase Smith was re-elected to a second term over Democrat Paul Fullam. Robert L. Jones Margaret Chase Smith, U.S. Senator since...
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    Eleanor Rosalynn Carter (/ˈroʊzəlɪn/ ROH-zə-lin; née Smith; August 18, 1927 – November 19, 2023) was an American writer, activist and humanitarian who...
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    of Colorado, J. Caleb Boggs of Delaware, Jack Miller of Iowa, and Margaret Chase Smith of Maine. The Republicans picked up open seats in New Mexico, North...
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    Sarah Margaret Fuller (May 23, 1810 – July 19, 1850), sometimes referred to as Margaret Fuller Ossoli, was an American journalist, editor, critic, translator...
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    Margaret Higgins Sanger (born Margaret Louise Higgins; September 14, 1879 – September 6, 1966), also known as Margaret Sanger Slee, was an American birth...
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    for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination (U.S. Senator Margaret Chase Smith having previously run for the 1964 Republican presidential nomination)...
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    Margaret Mead (December 16, 1901 – November 15, 1978) was an American cultural anthropologist who featured frequently as an author and speaker in the mass...
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    Senator, Margaret Chase Smith, also a Republican. Collins is the first program delegate elected to the Senate and holds the seat once held by Smith. After...
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    of the U.S. Senate had opposed McCarthy well before 1953. Senator Margaret Chase Smith, a Maine Republican, was the first. She delivered her "Declaration...
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    Robert Gould Shaw Fulton Sheen Alan Shepard Frank Sinatra Bessie Smith Margaret Chase Smith Elizabeth Cady Stanton Jimmy Stewart Harriet Beecher Stowe* Gilbert...
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  • The Declaration of Conscience speech, by U.S. Senator from Maine, Margaret Chase Smith, is delivered in response to Joseph R. McCarthy's speech at Wheeling...
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  • position as vice chair of the House Republican Conference in 1985. Margaret Chase Smith became the first woman elected in both chambers of Congress; she...
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    Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Smith, C to D". United States Congress. "SMITH, Margaret Chase (id: S000590)". Biographical Directory of the...
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    Mississippi 2001, Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship 2001, Margaret Chase Smith American Democracy Award 2001, honorary doctor of humane letters...
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    was held on November 8, 1960. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Margaret Chase Smith was re-elected to a third term over Democratic State Senator Lucia...
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    2006. Doherty (2005), pp. 14–15. Smith, Margaret Chase (June 1, 1950). "Declaration of Conscience". Margaret Chase Smith Library. Archived from the original...
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    2004, and 2010. Having won re-election in 2010, she has surpassed Margaret Chase Smith as the longest-serving female senator. ABC News named Mikulski its...
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