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	Rebecca Latimer Felton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Felton's full-time exposure to politics began in 1874, when she aided in her husband's successful campaign to Congress as his advisor and political strategist.
		Finding her niche, Felton became an outspoken opponent of New South Democratic leadership, and a strong proponent of and a leader in the women's movement, and in other progressive reform movements such as education and temperance.
		Felton moved from the farm into the town proper, to a home on the corner of Leake Street and South Avenue.
	www.roselawnmuseum.com /history/felton.html (222 words)

	U.S. Senate: Art & History Home > Rebecca Latimer Felton: A Featured Biography
		The first woman to serve in the United States Senate, Rebecca Latimer Felton (1835-1930) of Georgia took the oath of office on November 21, 1922.
		The 87-year-old Felton's largely symbolic Senate service capped a long career in Georgia politics and journalism.
		In her only Senate speech, delivered to a large audience in the Senate Chamber, Felton concluded with the following prediction: "When the women of the country come in and sit with you,...
	www.senate.gov /artandhistory/history/common/generic/Featured_Bio_Felton.htm (151 words)

	Rebecca Latimer FELTON — Infoplease.com
		“Rebecca Latimer Felton.” Master’s thesis, University of Georgia, 1944.
		Talmadge, John E. “Rebecca Latimer Felton.” In Georgians in Profile: Historical Essays in Honor of Ellis Merton Coulter, edited by Horace Montgomery, pp.
		“Rebecca Latimer Felton and the Wife’s Farm: The Class and Racial Politics of Gender Reform.” Georgia Historical Quarterly 76 (Summer 1992): 354-72.
	www.infoplease.com /biography/us/congress/felton-rebecca-latimer.html (223 words)

	Rebecca Ann Latimer Felton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Rebecca Ann Latimer Felton, the first woman to serve in the U.S. Senate, was born June 10, 1835 in Decatur, Georgia, U.S.A. In 1852 she graduated first in her class from Madison Female College in Madison, Georgia.
		Felton continued working to support election of friends who shared her isolationist and increasingly racist views.
		Rebecca Felton died January 24, 1930 in Atlanta, Georgia at the age of ninety-four.
	www.distinguishedwomen.com /biographies/felton.html (485 words)

	Rebecca Latimer Felton in Bartow County History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The author of numerous books, including Memoirs of Georgia Politics, Felton was also a columnist for twenty-eight years with the Atlanta Constitution.
		Entering politics as the advisor and political strategist of her congressman husband, William Felton, Rebecca soon became an outspoken opponent/proponent of various political issues.
		Her ultimate success in the political arena came in 1922 when she was honored with the unique distinction of being sworn in as the first woman senator.
	www.evhsonline.org /people/rfelton.html (86 words)

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		Richard Webb is often mentioned as conducting the local meetings in conjunction with the women; his wife Rebecca became the second president of the Savannah Union.
		Felton often voiced her approval for the lynching of fl rapists -- in direct opposition to the official National WCTU stance against this practice.
		Rebecca Felton had been strongly critical of the railroad industry's ability to regulate fair pricing, in effect calling railroad men dishonest.
	www.sip.armstrong.edu /WCTU/essay.html (4594 words)

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