biography
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Rohde, Ruth Bryan (Owen)
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née Bryan
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pronunciation:
[rohd]
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| female
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| lived:
| (1885–1954)
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| biography:
| Diplomat, US representative, and feminist, born in Jacksonville, Illinois, USA, the daughter of William Jennings Bryan. She attended school in Illinois and studied at Nebraska University, but left to marry in 1903. Divorced and remarried, with four children, she supported the family through public speaking after her husband became an invalid. In 1926 she ran unsuccessfully for the US House of Representatives from Florida, then was elected in 1928, the first congresswoman from the deep South (Democrat, Florida, 1929–33). In Congress she continued to lobby for women's rights. In 1933 she was appointed a special US ambassador to Denmark and Iceland, becoming the first woman to hold a major diplomatic post. After her marriage to a Dane, she was forced to resign, returning to the USA to lecture and write. She was an alternate delegate to the United Nations in 1949. |
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