biography
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Norton, Mary Teresa
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née Hopkins
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| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1875–1959)
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| biography:
| US representative, born in Jersey City, New Jersey, USA. A secretary (1896–1909) before marriage, she set up day-care nurseries for working mothers after her child died. Entering politics in 1920, she was one of the first women in the US House of Representatives (Democrat, New Jersey, 1924–51). She chaired the House Labor Committee (1937–46), shepherding through the Wages and Hours Bill, resigning from the committee to fight against the anti-labour Taft–Hartley Act of 1947. |
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