Mae ella nolan biography of alberta
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When Mary Ella Nolan was born on 4 March , in Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Thomas Nolan, was 36 and her mother, Anna Margaret Kimberling....
Mae Nolan
American politician (1886–1973)
Mae Ella Nolan (September 20, 1886 – July 9, 1973) was an American politician who became the fourth woman to serve in the United States Congress, the first woman elected to Congress from California, the first woman to chair a Congressional committee, and the first to fill the seat left vacant by her husband's death.
She took her seat in the United States House of Representatives in 1923.[1][2]: 19–34 [3]
Biography
Mae Nolan was born in San Francisco, California, and attended public schools, St.
Vincent's Convent, and Ayres Business College[4] of San Francisco.[1]
Congress
Nolan's husband, Republican U.S. Representative John Ignatius Nolan, died on November 18, 1922, near the end of the 67th Congress; he had been re-elected to the 68th Congress, which would come into existence on March 4, 1923.
Two special elections were held on January 23, 1923, to fill t