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January
25, 2009
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-- Gordon Imrie
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In the summer of 1964, an already esteemed lawmaker from Maine made history once again.
Senator
Margaret Chase Smith, the first woman ever to serve in both houses of
Congress, was among nine candidates nominated for the presidency on the
floor of the Republican National Convention in San Francisco.
Although delegates would overwhelmingly choose Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater as the party’s candidate and there had been nearly one hundred
female fringe candidates for president before that day, Smith was the
first woman in history to receive major-party nominating votes.
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Through it all, a group of Illinois women (click on image above for IDs), operating out of the
basement of their charismatic chairman’s suburban Chicago home, helped
make Smith’s glass-ceiling-cracking presidential run a reality.
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This website, sparked by one of those campaign volunteers, responds to Senator Smith's wish that the story of the women of the Margaret Chase Smith for President Committee be told. See the Senator's letter on this, below.
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