Second Woman is Elected U.S. Senator

Grey River Argus, 16 September 1948, Page 3

Second Woman is Elected U.S. Senator

(Rec. 10.10) NEW YORK, Sept. 14 Representative Margaret Chase Smith, made several records to-day when she was elected a member ot the United States Senate. She is the first Republican woman elected to that body, and also the first of her sex elected without first having been appointed. In the first State election this Presidential year, the forty-nine-year-old Mrs Smith, who is an ex ‘ telephone operator, and who had been a member of the House of Representatives for eight years, easily defeated a Democratic opponent, Doctor Adnan Scoltan, in the traditionally. Republican state of Maine. Mrs Smith s jna.T ority of 92,850 broke a twenty-four-year record, and her precentage ot tne votes 71.4 also was a record. Mrs Smith, who has been one of the most active members of the Ho us . e , succeeded her late husband, Clyde and sits on the important Armed Sei \ ices Committee. The only otter ever elected to the senate was Mrs Hattie Caraway, Democrat of Ai Kansas, who entered the Senate in 1931 to complete the unexpired term of hex late hdsband. She subsequently was elected for two full teims.