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National Federation Of Republican Women
The National Federation of Republican Women (NFRW) is a political action committee that serves as the women's wing of the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party in the United States. It was founded in 1938 by Marion Martin (Maine politician), Marion Martin (1901-1987), who was the assistant chair of the Republican National Committee (RNC). The NFRW is recognized as one of the largest grassroots political organizations in the country, with thousands of members spread across local clubs nationwide. According to the NFRW, its mission is to "empower women from all backgrounds in the political process and provide a forum for women to serve as leaders in political, government, and civic arenas."Burrell, B., & Bystrom, D. G. (Eds.). (2018). ''Encyclopedia of women as voters, candidates, and office holders'' (Vols. 1-2, pp. 337-338). ABC-CLIO. ISBN 9781610699747. History Background Before women were granted the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, righ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago is the List of municipalities in Illinois, most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States. With a population of 2,746,388, as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, it is the List of United States cities by population, third-most populous city in the United States after New York City and Los Angeles. As the county seat, seat of Cook County, Illinois, Cook County, the List of the most populous counties in the United States, second-most populous county in the U.S., Chicago is the center of the Chicago metropolitan area, often colloquially called "Chicagoland" and home to 9.6 million residents. Located on the shore of Lake Michigan, Chicago was incorporated as a city in 1837 near a Chicago Portage, portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River, Mississippi River watershed. It grew rapidly in the mid-19th century. In 1871, the Great Chicago Fire destroyed several square miles and left more than 100,000 homeless, but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wish List (political Organization)
The Wish List is a political action committee devoted to electing Abortion-rights movements, pro-abortion rights, also called pro-choice, Republican Party (United States), Republican women to the United States House of Representatives, House of Representatives and United States Senate, Senate. The Wish List was founded in 1992. The acronym "WISH" stands for Women In the Senate and House. The Wish List recruits candidates to run for federal office and state legislative offices. History The Wish List was established in 1992 following an organizing effort in December, 1991, led by Lynn Shapiro who became the Executive Director. Glenda Greenwald, who was president of the PAC, was among the women activists predicting that 1992 would be the Year of the Woman, and she argued that the GOP was not sufficiently funding women candidates. The primary purpose was to specifically fund women Republican candidates. Inspired by EMILY's List, a PAC supporting pro-abortion rights Democratic women, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conservative Variants Of Feminism
Some variants of feminism are considered more conservative than others. Historically feminist scholars tend to not have much interest in conservative women but in recent years there have been efforts at greater scholarly analysis of these women and their views. Because almost any variant of feminism can have a conservative element, this list does not attempt to list variants of feminism simply with conservative elements. Instead, this list is of feminism variants that are primarily conservative. List This list may include organizations or individuals where conservative variants of feminism are more readily identified that way, but is primarily a list of variants ''per se''. Generally, organizations and people related to a particular variant of feminism should not be included in this list but should be found by following links to articles about the variants of feminism with which such organizations and people are associated. * Conservative feminism (in addition to various vari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Women In The United States House Of Representatives
Women have served in the United States House of Representatives, the lower chamber of the United States Congress, since 1917 following the election of Republican Jeannette Rankin from Montana, the first woman in Congress. In total, 396 women have been U.S. representatives and eight more have been non-voting delegates. As of January 3, 2025, there are 125 women in the U.S. House of Representatives (not including four female non-voting delegates), making women 28.7% of the total. Of the 404 women who have served in the House, 269 have been Democrats (including four from U.S. territories and the District of Columbia) and 135 have been Republicans (including three from U.S. territories, including pre-statehood Hawaii). One woman was the 52nd Speaker of the House, Democrat Nancy Pelosi of California. Women have been elected to the House of Representatives from 49 of the 50 states. Mississippi is the only state that has not elected a woman to the House of Representatives, thoug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Women In The United States Senate
This article covers the history of women in the United States Senate and various milestones achieved by female senators. It includes a list of all women who have served in the Senate, a list of current female senators, and a list of states represented by women in the Senate. The first female U.S. senator, Rebecca Latimer Felton, represented Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia for a single day in 1922, and the first woman elected to the Senate, Hattie Caraway, was elected from Arkansas in 1932. As of January 2025, 64 women have served in the upper house of the United States Congress, of which 26 (16 Democrats and 10 Republicans) are currently serving (out of 100 possible seats). Nancy Kassebaum (born July 29, 1932) is the oldest living former female member of the Senate at the age of . History For its first 130 years in existence, the Senate's membership was entirely male. Until 1920 United States Senate elections, 1920, few women ran for the Senate. Until the 1990s, very few wer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Jo Arndt
Mary Jo Arndt (; September 18, 1933 – September 24, 2011) was an American activist and civic leader involved in Republican politics. She was president of the Illinois Federation of Republican Women and in 1982, she was elected to the Illinois Republican Committee representing the 6th congressional district. Between 1998 and 1999, she was president of the National Federation of Republican Women. She was described by the ''Chicago Tribune'' as "arguably the state's most influential Republican woman operative". Early life Arndt was born Mary Jo Larsen on September 18, 1933, in Chicago, Illinois. She was the only child of Holger Hans Larsen, a home builder who co-founded the John Ericsson Republican League of Du Page County, and Georgia E. Larsen (née Weede), a volunteer with the Lombard Republican Women's Organization. The family relocated first to Elgin and then to Lombard, Illinois. She attended Glenbard West High School before receiving a bachelor's of science degree in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Betty Heitman
Betty Green Heitman (November 27, 1929 – February 1, 1994) was a Republican activist from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. From 1978 to 1980 she was president of the National Federation of Republican Women. During her tenure the organization achieved financial independence from the Republican National Committee in Washington, D.C. She also prodded U.S. Presidents Ronald W. Reagan and George Herbert Walker Bush to appoint more women to executive government offices. Background Heitman was a native of Malvern in Hot Spring County, near Little Rock, Arkansas. She graduated in 1949 from Texas Woman's University in Denton in North Texas. In 1980, she was named a distinguished alumnus of the institution. Heitman was married to Henry Schrader Heitman, M.D. (1923–1992), who had been a captain in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. The couple had four children, among them, Thomas H. Heitman (born 1956) of Oakton in Fairfax County, Virginia, and Paul Anderson Heitman (bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorothy Andrews Elston Kabis
Dorothy Andrews Elston Kabis (March 22, 1917 – July 3, 1971) was a Republican Party (United States), Republican Party activist and former Treasurer of the United States from Delaware, having served from May 8, 1969, until her death. She was the only treasurer to marry while in office.Dorothy Andrews Elston Kabis biographical information, ''Who's Who in America, 1970–1971'', p. 662Donald T. Critchlow, ''Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism'', Princeton University Press, 2005, pp. 138–59 Biography Elston Kabis died of a heart attack in Sheffield, Massachusetts, at 54 while visiting her father's grave. In her honor, the NFRW established an internship program for young women. Name change Following her appointment as treasurer by U.S. President Richard M. Nixon as Dorothy Andrews Elston, she married Walter L. Kabis (1914–2009), a World War II Pacific Navy veteran on the USS England (DE-635), USS ''England'' (DE-635) and a school principal from Wilmington, Delaware, in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie H
Marie may refer to the following. People Given name * Marie (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the name ** List of people named Marie * Marie (Japanese given name) Surname * Jean Gabriel-Marie, French composer * Jean Gabriel Marie (1907–1970), his son, French romantic composer Arts, entertainment and media Film, television and stage * ''Marie'' (1980 TV series), an American television show * ''Marie'' (1985 film), an American biography of Marie Ragghianti * ''Marie'' (2020 film), a documentary short about homebirths * ''Marie'' (talk show), hosted by Marie Osmond * ''Marie'' (TV pilot), a 1979 American pilot with Marie Osmond * ''Marie'', a 2009 ballet by Stanton Welch Literature * ''Marie'' (novel), by H. Rider Haggard, 1912 Music * ''Marie'', a 2008 EP by the Romance of Young Tigers * "Marie" (Cat Mother and the All Night Newsboys song), 1969 * "Marie" (Johnny Hallyday song), 2002 * "Marie" (Sleepy Hallow song), 2022 * "Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jessica M
Jessica may refer to: Given name * Jessica (given name), includes a list of people and fictional characters with this name * Jessica Folcker, a Swedish singer known by the mononym Jessica * Jessica Jung, a Korean-American singer known by the mononym Jessica, former member of the South Korean girl group Girls' Generation * Jessica (The Merchant of Venice), Jessica (''The Merchant of Venice''), a character in Shakespeare's play * Jessica (Rick and Morty), Jessica (''Rick and Morty''), a character in the Adult Swim media franchise Animals * Jessica (spider), ''Jessica'' (spider), a genus of spiders * ''Catocala jessica'', a moth of the Noctuidae superfamily, described from Arizona through Colorado to Illinois and California * ''Perrona jessica'', a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Clavatulidae Arts, entertainment, and media Music * Jessika (opera), ''Jessika'' (opera), 1905 opera by Josef Bohuslav Foerster Albums * Jessica (Gerald Wilson album), ''Je ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Constitution Of The United States
The Constitution of the United States is the Supremacy Clause, supreme law of the United States, United States of America. It superseded the Articles of Confederation, the nation's first constitution, on March 4, 1789. Originally including seven articles, the Constitution delineates the frame of the Federal government of the United States, federal government. The Constitution's first three articles embody the doctrine of the separation of powers, in which the federal government is divided into three branches: the United States Congress, legislative, consisting of the bicameralism, bicameral Congress (Article One of the United States Constitution, Article I); the Federal government of the United States#Executive branch, executive, consisting of the President of the United States, president and subordinate officers (Article Two of the United States Constitution, Article II); and the Federal judiciary of the United States, judicial, consisting of the Supreme Court of the Unit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Declaration Of Independence
A declaration of independence is an assertion by a polity in a defined territory that it is independent and constitutes a state. Such places are usually declared from part or all of the territory of another state or failed state, or are breakaway territories from within the larger state. In 2010, the UN's International Court of Justice ruled in an advisory opinion in Kosovo that "International law contains no prohibition on declarations of independence", though the state from which the territory wishes to secede may regard the declaration as rebellion, which may lead to a war of independence or a constitutional settlement to resolve the crisis. List of declarations of independence See also * Independence referendum * List of national independence days * List of sovereign states by date of formation * Political history of the world * Separatism Separatism is the advocacy of cultural, ethnic, tribal, religious, racial, regional, governmental, or gender separation fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
