Ruth Bryan Owen
Ruth Baird Bryan Leavitt Owen Rohde, also known as Ruth Bryan Owen, was elected to two terms in the U.S. House of Representatives and was the first woman appointed as a United States ambassador. The daughter of attorneys William Jennings Bryan and Mary E. Baird, she was a Democrat, who in 1929 was elected from Florida's 4th district as Florida's first female U.S. Representative and the second from the South after Alice Mary Robertson. Representative Owen was also the first woman to earn a seat on the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs. She campaigned for prohibition.
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Female
Full Name
Ruth Baird Bryan
Date of Birth
October 2nd, 1885
Age
141
Birth Place
United States of America, Illinois
Date of Death
July 26th, 1954
Died Aged
68
Star Sign
Libra
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