Evening star., 1934-02-18
WOMAN OFFICE
HOLDERSL|STED
Miss Perkins and Mrs. Owen
head Honor Roll OF
Voters League.

q survey of women holding public Of
fee The compilation was made to
indicate the progress women have
made IN practical politics since they
were given the vote in 1920.
1t does not pretend to list all offices
held by women in Federal, State,
county and municipal governments,
but only some of the most prominent
Office holders and the varying charac-
ter of their responsibilities.
At the head OF the roll of honor is
Miss Frances Perkins, Secretary of
Labor. Also in the executive depart
ment of the Federal Government were
the 81 568 women in civil service on
June 30, 1888. Most of these are in
clerical, fiscal or custodial positions,
but many are serving in professional
capacities such as chiefs and assistant
chiefs of department divisions, super
visors of special departmental activi-
ties, librarians, Statisticians, naturali-
cation officers, business and medical
specialists and legal assistants.
After Miss Perkins on the list comes
Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen, Minister to
Denmark
The list for the executive branch
with classifications according to the
kind of work follows: Bureau chiefs
Miss Mary Anderson. director of the
Women's Bureau Labor Department;
Miss Grace Abbott, chief of the Chill
dren's Bureau, Labor Department; Dr.
Louise Stanley, chief of the Bureau
Of Home Economics, Agriculture De-
partment, and Mrs. Nellie Tayloe
Ross, director of the mint.
TN1Ia i
sionS-MiSs Annabel Matthews, men,
Der of Board of Tax Appeals; Mrs.
Lucille Foster McMillin, member of
the Civil Service Commission, and
Mrs. Ralph P Swofford, member of
the United States Employees Com
pensation Commission
Department of State-Mrs. Ruth B.
Shipley, chief of passport division.
and Miss Margaret NJ. Hanna, chief
of the Office of coordination and re-
view
Treasury Department-Mrs. Blair
BaniSter, assistant treasurer, and
Mary M. O'Reilly, assistant director of
the mint.
War Department-Mary S. Nixon,
chief of the division of co-ordina-
ton and record.
Many in Justice Department.
Justice Department-Dr. Mary Har-
ris, superintendent of the Federal
prison at Anderson, w. Va; DR.. Amy
N Stannard, member of the Board of
Parole, and Miss Stella Akin, special
assistant to the Attorney General.
Post Office Department-BetWeen
March 4 and october /, 1888, 1s
women were appointed to the position
of acting postmaster at first-class
Offices. 412 at second and third class
offices, and 456 at fourth-claSs offices
Interior Department-Miss Bess
Goodykoontz, assistant commissioner
Of education, and Miss Adelaide S.
Baylor, chief Of the Home Economics
Education Service, Office Of Education.
Agriculture Department-Miss Clar-
ibel r. Barnett, senior librarian.
Labor Department-Miss Katherine
p. Lenroot. assistant chief of the
Children's Bureau; Miss Agnes L. Pet
erson, assistant director of the
Women's Bureau, and Miss Mary La
Dame, associate director of the United
States Employment Service.
Executives in field service, all COL
lectors of customs-Mrs. Nellie Gregg
Tomlinson, Des Moines Iowa; Mrs
Verda Allison Wright, Memphis,
Tenn; Mrs. Margaret NJ. McQuilkin,
Salt Lake City, Utah; Mrs. Agnes M.
Hodge, Minneapolis, Mimi; Mrs.
Fannie Dixon WEIGH, Bridgeport,
Conn, and Mrs Jean Springstead
Whittemore, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
There is only one woman judge in
the Federal system. She is Miss
Genevieve Cline, an Ohio woman, who
was appointed in 1928 to the bench
of the United States Customs Court,
q life Job which carries an annual
salary of $4,000.
Nineteen women have been either
elected or appointed to Congress and
the election of twentieth, Mrs. Bo-
livar E. Kemp of the sixth Louisiana,
recently was declared void by the
House of Representatives.
The first woman elected to Con-
rress was Miss jeanette A. Rankin,
Republican, of Montana, who served
one term in the House, from 1917 to
1919. That was before the woman's
suffrage amendment was made ef-
fective.
Mrs Rebecca Latimer FELTON, was
the first woman Senator. She was
appointed by the Governor Of Georgia
to serve one day, November 81, 1922.
Mrs. Caraway in Senate.
Mrs. Hattie W. Caraway Of Ar
kansas is the only other woman sent
to the Senate She was appointed No
vember, 1881, to fill the vacancy caused
by her husbands death, and at spe-
cial election in January, 1882, her ap-
pointment was confirmed by the peo-
ple's vote. In November Of the same
year she was reelected for full
term.
At present there are seven women
In the House of Representatives.
They are Mrs. Mary r. Norton, New
Jersey; Mrs. Florence P. Kahn, Cali
fornia; Mrs Edith Nourse Rogers. Mas
sachusetts Mrs. Kathryn O'Loughlin
Mccarthy, Kansas; Mrs. Virginia Ellis
Jenckes, Indiana; Mrs. Isabella S.
Greenway, Arizona, and Mrs. Marian
w. Clarke, New York
The largest number of women's
names carried at any time on the
rolls Of Congress was during the short
session of the Seventy-flrSt Congress,
when nine were members Of the
House.
total of 135 women are serving
as legislators of "a States. Hawaii
las one woman in its Senate. This
is IL less than the number serving in
SO States in 1881 and decrease Of
IA from the 149 women carried on
the rosters of 39 State Legislatures in
1929.
The following States only have no
women in their Legislatures; Ala
bama, Colorado, Delaware, Florida,
Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michi-
gan, Missouri, Nevada, New York,
Oklahoma, South Carolina and Ten
nessee.
Prior to 1920, when women were
granted the right to vote, it is esti-
mated that but go women had served
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