Margaret Madeline Chase Smith was an American politician. A member of the Republican Party, she served as a U.S. representative (1940–1949) and a U.S. senator (1949–1973) from Maine. She was the first woman to serve in both houses of the United States Congress, and the first woman to represent Maine in either. A Republican, she was among the first to criticize the tactics of Joseph McCarthy in her 1950 speech, "Declaration of Conscience".
Margaret Chase Smith
Smith in 1943
In 1956 Smith and Eleanor Roosevelt jointly appeared as the first-ever women panelists on Face the Nation. With them is the host, CBS News correspondent Stuart Novins.
Smith announcing her candidacy for the President of the United States
1964 Republican Party presidential primaries
From March 10 to June 2, 1964, voters of the Republican Party elected 1,308 delegates to the 1964 Republican National Convention through a series of delegate selection primaries and caucuses, for the purpose of determining the party's nominee for president in the 1964 United States presidential election.
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Image: Henry Cabot Lodge Jr (R MA) (cropped)
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