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Ruth Bryan Owen
U.S. Congressperson
1885 – 1954
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Who was Ruth Bryan Owen?
Ruth Bryan Owen was the daughter of William Jennings Bryan. A Democrat, in 1929 she became Florida’s first woman representative in the United States Congress, coming from Florida’s 4th district. Representative Owen was also the first woman to earn a seat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee. In 1933, she became the first woman appointed as a U.S. minister to another country when President Roosevelt selected her to be Minister to Denmark and Iceland.
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- Born
- Oct 2, 1885
Jacksonville - Parents
- Spouses
- Reginald Owen
(1910 - 1928) - William Homer Leavitt
(1903 - 1909) - Borge Rohde
- Reginald Owen
- Profession
- Lived in
- Oracabessa
- Died
- Jul 26, 1954
Copenhagen
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on July 23, 2013
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