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	Margaret Chase Smith - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Margaret Chase Smith (December 14, 1897–May 29, 1995) was a Republican Senator from Maine, and one of the most successful politicians in Maine history.
		Margaret Chase attended Colby College in Waterville, Maine and was inducted into the Alpha chapter of Sigma Kappa Sorority.
		Senator Smith is historically prominent not only for her many firsts as a woman, but also for her early principled opposition to the tactics of Senator Joseph McCarthy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Margaret_Chase_Smith (511 words)

	Margaret Chase Smith
		Former Senator Margaret Chase Smith, Maine's First Lady, is perhaps best known for her contribution to the well being of the United States and its people with her consistent stand for the condemnation of bigotry and injustice wherever she found it.
		Senator Smith put her name at the forefront of women's achievements that have significantly improved the lives of women when, at the Republican Convention in 1964, her name was placed in nomination for the President of the United States.
		Senator Smith is the first woman elected to a leadership post in the United States Senate, serving as the leader of the Conference of all Republican Senators from 1967 until her retirement.
	www.uma.edu /libraries/MWHOF_Website/alibmcsmith.html (430 words)

	Margaret Chase Smith Library - Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Margaret Chase Smith was born in Skowhegan, Maine, on December 14, 1897.
		Senator Smith came to national attention on June 1, 1950, when she became the first member of the Senate to denounce the tactics used by colleague Joseph McCarthy in his anticommunist crusade.
		The Margaret Chase Smith Library opened in 1982 and for the next dozen years, she presided over the facility, meeting with admirers, former constituents, politicians, policymakers, researchers, and school children.
	www.mcslibrary.org /bio/biog.htm (267 words)

	AllRefer.com - Margaret Chase Smith (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Margaret Chase Smith 1897–1995, U.S. senator from Maine (1949–73), b.
		In 1930 she married Clyde Smith, the publisher of the paper, and upon his election as a U.S. representative served in Washington as his secretary, researcher, and office manager.
		Active in Republican party politics, she was elected after the death of her husband in 1940 to finish his unexpired term, becoming Maine's first congresswoman.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/S/Smith-MC.html (216 words)

	Maine Secretary of State Kid's Page - Famous People (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Skowhegan native Margaret Chase Smith was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1948.
		Smith distinguished herself in office by being one of the few politicians to openly stand against the "Red Scare" politics of the 1950's.
		Smith also made history by running for President in 1964, becoming the first woman to be seriously considered for nomination.
	www.state.me.us /sos/kids/allabout/people/m_smith.htm (87 words)

	Mrs. Smith Runs for President (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		At this moment Margaret Chase Smith became the first woman to become a candidate for a major party nomination for the nation's highest office.
		Smith listed four arguments her correspondents gave as to why she should run (and six why she should not run).
		Smith was defeated when she ran for re-election in 1972, but lived on in Maine until age 97.
	www.uic.edu /orgs/cwluherstory/jofreeman/polhistory/smith.htm (633 words)

	Margaret Chase Smith Center- Biography Margaret Chase Smith
		Born in Skowhegan, Maine on December 14, 1897, Margaret Chase Smith was the daughter of Carrie Murray Chase and George Emery Chase.
		Following a successful eight years in the House, Margaret Chase Smith beat the odds when she soundly defeated the incumbent governor, Horace Hildreth; former governor Sumner Sewal; and the Reverend Albion Beverage in the Republican primary and easily won the general election in September for the United States Senate in 1948.
		In 1950, Margaret Chase Smith was once again brought to national attention when she authored the Declaration of Conscience, marking the beginning of the end of McCarthyism.
	www.umaine.edu /mcsc/AboutUs/Bio.htm (453 words)

	Margaret Chase Smith: A Woman Pioneering the Future (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In 1963, when Margaret Chase Smith declared her candidacy for the Republican nomination for President of the United States, she was continuing her role as political pioneer.
		Born on Dec. 14, 1897, Margaret Madeline Chase was true to the spirit of independence in the state of her birth, Maine.
		The Margaret Chase Smith Library is a congressional research library open to qualified scholars.
	www.nwhp.org /tlp/biographies/chase_smith/chase_smith-bio.html (611 words)

	SMITH, MARGARET CHASE
		Smith's political career began in 1939 when she succeeded her late husband, Clyde Harold Smith, in the House of Representatives, a position she held until she was elected to the Senate.
		A lieutenant colonel in the Air Force Reserve (1950-1958), she was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-sixth Congress, by special election, June 3, 1940, and was reelected to the four succeeding Congresses, serving from June 3, 1940, to January 3, 1949.
		Smith was elected in 1948 to the United States Senate and reelected in 1954, 1960, and again in 1966, this time serving from January 3, 1949 until January 3, 1973 having been defeated by U.S. Congressman William D. Hathaway in 1972.
	people.maine.com /publius/almanac/encycweb/htm/smithmc.htm (403 words)

	Boston.com / News / Local / Maine / 40 years ago, Maine's Sen. Smith ran for president (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		But Smith, who was in the third of her four Senate terms in 1964, campaigned actively, competing in five state primaries for the Republican presidential nomination that ultimately went to Arizona Sen. Barry Goldwater.
		Smith knew what she was in for in her 1964 run.
		The house is kept exactly as it was when Smith lived there, right down to the sugar and flour canisters in the kitchen and a note she never finished writing on a table next to her living-room chair.
	www.boston.com /news/local/maine/articles/2004/07/26/40_years_ago_maines_sen_smith_ran_for_president?mode=PF (978 words)

	Margaret Chase Smith -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Margaret Chase Smith (December 14, 1897 - May 29, 1995) was a (A tributary of the Kansas River that flows from eastern Colorado eastward through Nebraska and Kansas) Republican (A member of a senate) Senator from (A state in New England) Maine, and one of the most successful politicians in Maine history.
		She was the first woman to have her name placed in nomination at her party's convention (1964 (A tributary of the Kansas River that flows from eastern Colorado eastward through Nebraska and Kansas) Republican).
		Senator Smith is historically prominent not only for her many firsts as a woman, but also for her early principled opposition to the tactics of Senator (United States politician who unscrupulously accused many citizens of being Communists (1908-1957)) Joseph McCarthy.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/ma/margaret_chase_smith.htm (536 words)

	Margaret Chase Smith
		When Margaret was 32, May 14, 1930, She and Clyde Smith Were Married.
		Margaret ran for that seat in the senate in a special election because of his death, and also for the next term in a regular election.
		In 1964, Margaret ran for president in the primary.
	homepage.mac.com /tedpearson77/writings/older/smith.html (771 words)

	MARGARET CHASE SMITH FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Margaret Chase Smith (December_14, 1897–May_29, 1995) was a Republican Senator from Maine, and one of the most successful politicians in Maine history.
		Margaret Chase attended Colby_College in Waterville,_Maine and was inducted into the Alpha chapter of Sigma_Kappa Sorority.
		She received the Presidential_Medal_of_Freedom from President George H. Bush in 1989 in addition to the U.S. Air Force's top award, the American Spirit Award, in recognition of her contributions as a "great American patriot." She was also presented with a Doctor of Laws honorary degree from Rutgers University in addition to 93 other honorary degrees.
	www.witwib.com /Margaret_Chase_Smith (518 words)

	Breaking Into the Club
		Smith's long public career began when she was elected in 1940 to finish her deceased husband's House term -- about the only way a woman could get elected to Congress in those days.
		Sherman does explore Smith's relationship with the one person who arguably had the most profound influence on her career, William Chesley Lewis Jr., whom she met during the war when he was counsel to the House Naval Affairs Committee and she was a newly elected member of the House.
		Smith stayed busy, serving on boards, lecturing around the country, remaining engaged and active almost to the end of her long life.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/00/02/06/reviews/000206.06obriet.html (1175 words)

	Encyclopedia: Margaret Chase Smith
		Margaret Chase Smith, from US Senate webpage http://www.
		Svest 01:16, May 17, 2005 (UTC) Purpose of Sigma Kappa Membership The purpose of Sigma Kappa Sorority is to unite its members in a bond of sincere friendship for the development of character and the promotion of social, literary, and intellectual culture to support and further the program and...
		The Declaration of Conscience was a speech made by Senator Margaret Chase Smith on June 1, 1950, the height of the McCarthy Era.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Margaret-Chase-Smith (1367 words)

	\| Review \| The History Teacher, 35.1 \| The History Cooperative
		Smith shared the values of her Yankee constituency and became noted for frankness, honesty, integrity, and courage.
		Accepting the conventions that bound her sex, Smith was never a feminist and later denied that she ever saw herself as a woman.
		Smith's sensitivity to gender discrimination, heightened through many years in the workplace, led her to pursue a series of measures during and after the war to equalize opportunities for women.
	www.historycooperative.org /journals/ht/35.1/br_15.html (729 words)

	National Women's Hall of Fame - Women of the Hall
		Margaret worked after school at the five and 10 and took commercial courses in high school.
		When Smith was elected to the House of Representatives, Margaret served as his secretary.
		Margaret Chase Smith went on to serve well and win repeated reelection in her own right.
	www.greatwomen.org /women.php?action=viewone&id=146 (411 words)

	No Place for a Woman
		Margaret's circle included her best friend, Pauline Bragg, and two fellows she favored: Bob Merrow, who frequently walked her home and visited with her on her front porch on summer evenings, and Harry St. Ledger, then captain of the football team, who usually took her to the movies—his father managed the Bijou Theater.
		When Margaret explained that she still had several weeks of school left and could not abandon her studies even for the higher salary, Clyde simply called his friend, the high school principal, smoothing the way for her to work during school days and make up her classwork on her own time.
		Margaret knew he "had a reputation for liking the girls, especially younger girls," but, despite her mother's warning, or perhaps because of it, she found him charming.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/first/s/sherman-woman.html (4036 words)

	Highlights of Margaret Chase Smith's Life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Margaret Chase Smith was only a Junior Senator when she wrote the speech and gave the speech.
		In 1905 when Margaret Chase Smith was nine her father, George, worked as a barber.
		Margaret's first job was working at a 5 and 10 cent store and she earned $.35 a day.
	www.biddle-audenreed.com /MagSmith.html (614 words)

	Lifetimetv.com: Our Lifetime Commitment - Women's History
		How she made her mark: Unable to afford college, Margaret Chase Smith worked at various jobs — in a school, at a mill, at the telephone company and for a newspaper — after graduating from high school.
		In 1930, Margaret Chase married Clyde H. Smith, who was elected to Congress in 1936.
		Smith was one of the original inductees into the National Women's Hall of Fame, and was named Woman of the Year by the Associated Press in 1948, 1949, 1950 and 1957.
	www.lifetimetv.com /community/olc/womenshistory/mchasesmith.html (238 words)

	Smith, Margaret Chase -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Margaret Chase attended high school in her native Skowhegan, Maine, graduating in 1916.
		She was born on Dec. 14, 1897, in Skowhegan, Me. First a businesswoman, she became a politician in 1940 when her husband, Clyde H. Smith, a member of Congress, died and she was elected to serve out his term.
		Her tenure was short (1849–50), as her husband was in office less than a year and a half before he suffered a digestive ailment and died, and she never took part in formal social functions while living at...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9126197 (792 words)

	Margaret Chase Smith Biography / Biography of Margaret Chase Smith Biography Biography
		Margaret Chase Smith (1897-1995) was one of the most politically powerful women in American history.
		She was the first woman to have been elected to both houses of Congress and in 1964 became the first woman to have been nominated for the presidency of the United States by a major political party.
		Margaret Chase Smith was born in Skowhegan, Maine, on December 14, 1897, the eldest of six children born to Carrie and George Chase.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-margaret-chase-smith (241 words)

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		Margaret Chase Smith was the first woman to be elected to both houses of the United States Congress.
		In 1964, Smith campaigned for the Republican presidential nomination, the first woman ever to do so for a major party.
		She was born Margaret Madeline Chase in Skowhegan, Maine.
	www.worldbook.com /wc/features/whm/html/msmith.html (106 words)

	Peacock House - Smith Suite (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		As a result she became the first women in the nation's history to serve in both houses of the U.S. Congress and the first to be elected to the U.S. Senate in her own right.
		Throughout her career, Senator Smith received numerous honors recognizing her contributions to the nation and was the recipient of ninety-five honorary degrees from educational institutions across the country.
		On May 29, 1995, Margaret Chase Smith passed away due to complications from a major stroke she suffered.
	www.peacockhouse.com /smith.htm (507 words)

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