Complex sentence: The first woman Senator from Alabama, she was appointed to the Senate by her husband, then Governor Bibb Graves, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Hugo L. Black and served from August 20 1937 to her resignation on January 10 1938.
Split into simpler sentences: The first woman Senator from Alabama, she was appointed to the Senate by her husband, then Governor Bibb Graves, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Hugo L. Black. Graves served from August 20 1937 to her resignation on January 10 1938.