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Founding members (from left) Jane Block, Jane Carney, Mary Curtin and Grace Slocum accept the "Spirit of Eleanor Roosevelt" award at the 2007 Eleanor Roosevelt Tea. (Founding member June Foreman was honored posthumously.)
EXECUTIVE OFFICERS Vice President: Barbara Kerr CFO: Suzanne Tanenbaum Secretary: Sheila Riley Membership: Marisa Yeager Elections Chair: Sheila Riley
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DID YOU KNOW?
Just over a decade ago only 30 Democratic women served in the House of Representatives. By 2005 that number had grown to 43. Today 53 Democratic women serve in the House and Speaker Nancy Pelosi presides as the highest ranking woman official in our nations history. (www.speakerpelosi.com)
Victoria Woodhull, born in 1838 in Homer, Ohio, was selected by the Equal Rights Party to be its candidate in the 1872 Presidential election. (She lost to fellow Ohioan Ulysses S. Grant, who was reelected to a second term.)
Wonder Woman ran for President in 1943, as seen on this DC Comics cover:
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