 | November 8, 1840, Birth of Judith Ellen Foster; addressing the 1892 Republican National Convention, she declared: “We are here to help you, and we have come to stay. November 9, 1938, Republican Gladys Pyle becomes first woman elected to U.S. Senate from South Dakota; earlier had been first woman elected to constitutional office (Secretary of State) and to state legislature. |
November 11, 1880, Death of abolitionist, suffragist and Republican activist Lucretia Mott.
November 12, 2001, President George W. Bush proclaims National American Indian Heritage Month.
November 13, 2002, U.S. Rep. Deborah Pryce (R-OH) elected as Chair of House Republican Conference; she is highest-ranking woman in House majority leadership in U.S. history.
November 14, 1824, Birth of U.S. Rep. James Ashley (R-OH), author of constitutional amendment to ban slavery.
November 15, 1983, President Ronald Reagan’s nominee to Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Susan Meredith Phillips, confirmed as first woman to serve as Chairman.
“We understand every child in America must be educated in order for this country to realize its full promise.”
George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United States
Tags: President Bush and Freedom Calendar or Booker T. Washington and Republicans or African-Americans and Brown v. Board of Education or Ronald Reagan and Michael Steele or Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass or 40 acres and a mule or Martin Luther King and Voting Rights Act of 1965 or Dred Scott
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