death_date children nationality birth_date signature residence death_place image_size image citizenship name occupation death_cause caption years_active parents known_for article_title home_town
29 october 2002 mjohn american 06 march 1920 marionsignature.jpg st. paul , minnesota st. paul , minnesota 200px marioncarpenterside.png u.s.a. marion a. carpenter photographer , nurse emphysema marion to president truman . carpenter , extracted from her 1949 christmas card 1942-1984 harry carpenter and lillian b. marion pioneer photographer press photographer , first woman white house press marion carpenter
 st. paul , minnesota
marion carpenter

marion a. carpenter , also known as marion anderson -lrb- march 6 , 1920 -- october 29 , 2002 -rrb- , was the first woman national press photographer to cover washington , d.c. and the white house , and to travel with a us president .
she broke the gender role stereotype in the 1940s but left washington in 1949 after her second marriage .
after divorce in 1951 , carpenter returned to st. paul , minnesota , where she worked as a nurse to support her mother and son .
while she did some photography , by her death at age 82 , she was little known in the national memory .
since her death , there has been recognition of carpenter as a pioneer .
