biography
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Rogers, Edith
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née Nourse
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| female
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| lived:
| (1881–1960)
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| biography:
| US representative, born in Saco, Maine, USA. Educated in Paris, she returned to Europe during World War 1 to inspect military hospitals, and continued that work in the USA, a personal representative of presidents Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge (1922–5). Elected to her husband's congressional seat after his death (Republican, Massachusetts, 1925–60), she championed veterans' rights to pensions and disability allowances, sponsoring the GI Bill of Rights after World War 2. |
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