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| − | {{Infobox Senator | name=Rebecca Latimer Felton
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| − | | nationality=American
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| − | | jr/sr=United States Senator
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| − | | state=[[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]]
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| − | | party=[[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
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| − | | term_start=[[November 21]], [[1922]]
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| − | | term_end=[[November 22]], [[1922]]
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| − | | preceded=[[Thomas E. Watson]]
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| − | | succeeded=[[Walter F. George]]
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| − | | date of birth={{birth date|1835|6|10|mf=y}}
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| − | | place of birth=[[Decatur, Georgia]]
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| − | | date of death={{death date and age |1930|01|24|1835|06|10}}
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| − | | place of death=[[Atlanta, Georgia]]
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| − | | spouse=[[William H. Felton]]
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| − | '''Rebecca Ann Latimer Felton''' ([[June 10]], [[1835]] – [[January 24]], [[1930]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[writer]], [[teacher]], reformer, and briefly a [[politician]] who became the first woman to serve in the [[United States Senate]], filling an appointment on [[November 21]], [[1922]], and serving until the next day. At 87 years old, she was also the oldest freshman senator to enter the Senate. [[2008|As of 2008]], she is also the only woman to have served as a Senator from [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]].
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| − | In 1922, [[Governor of Georgia|Governor]] [[Thomas W. Hardwick]] was a candidate for the next [[general election]] to the Senate, when Senator [[Thomas E. Watson]] died prematurely. Seeking an appointee who would not be a competitor in the coming [[special election]] to fill the vacant seat, and a way to secure the vote of the new women voters alienated by his opposition to the [[19th Amendment to the United States Constitution|19th Amendment]], Hardwick chose Felton to serve as Senator on [[October 3]], [[1922]].
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| − | Congress was not expected to reconvene until after the election, so the chances were slim that Felton would be formally sworn in as Senator. However, [[Walter F. George]] won the [[special election]] despite Hardwick's ploy. Rather than take his seat immediately when the Senate reconvened on [[November 21]], [[1922]], George allowed Felton to be officially sworn in. Felton thus became the first woman seated in the Senate, and served until George took office on [[November 22]], [[1922]], one day later.
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| − | == Final years ==
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| − | Felton was engaged as a writer and lecturer and resided in [[Cartersville, Georgia]], until her death in [[Atlanta, Georgia]]. She was interred in the Oak Hill Cemetery in Cartersville.
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| − | * "When the women of the country come in and sit with you, though there may be but very few in the next few years, I pledge you that you will get ability, you will get integrity of purpose, you will get exalted patriotism, and you will get unstinted usefulness." — Address to the Senate, [[November 21]], [[1922]]
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| − | * "When there is not enough religion in the pulpit to organize a crusade against sin; nor justice in the court house to promptly punish crime; nor manhood enough in the nation to put a sheltering arm about innocence and virtue----if it needs lynching to protect woman’s dearest possession from the ravening human beasts----then I say lynch, a thousand times a week if necessary." [[August 11]], [[1897]]
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| − | == See also ==
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| − | *[[Women in the United States Senate]]
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| − | == References ==
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| − | * {{CongBio|F000069}}
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| − | * U.S. Senate. [http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/First_Woman_Senator_Appointed.htm First woman senator appointed]. Retrieved March 1, 2005.
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| − | * [http://www.1898wilmington.com/AlexanderManlyRebeccaFelton.shtml]
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| − | * [http://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/felton/menu.html Felton's memoirs online]
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| − | * [http://qanda.org/Transcript/?ProgramID=1026 Uncorrected transcript of interview] with [[Richard Baker (Senate Historian)|Richard Baker]], [[Historian of the United States Senate|Senate Historian]], on [[C-SPAN]] [[Q&A (television)|Q&A]] television program, [[June 12, 2005]]
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| − | | state=Georgia
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| − | | before=[[Thomas E. Watson]]
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| − | | after=[[Walter F. George]]
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| − | | years=[[1922]]
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| − | | title=[[Earliest living US senator##1 Oldest Senators (Historic)|Oldest living U.S. Senator]]
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| − | | after=[[Adelbert Ames]]
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