Rebecca+latemier+felton

I dealt with sufferage, race realations, temperance movement,womens rights, and prison reforms. Sfferage: right to vote: a legal right guaranteed by the 15th amendment to the US Constitution; guaranteed to women by the 19th amendment; "American women ... Race realations:Rce relations is the area of sociology that studies the social, political, and economic relations between races at all different levels of society. This area encompasses the study of racism, and of complex political interactions between members of different groups. ABOUT ME(**//REBCCA LATIMER FELTON)://** (wife of William Harrell Felton),I am a Senator from Georgia; born near Decatur, De Kalb County, Ga., June 10, 1835; I attended the common schools and graduated from the Madison Female College in 1852; I moved to Bartow County, Ga., in 1854; I taught school;I am a writer, lecturer, and reformer with special interest in agricultural and women’s issues; served as secretary to her husband while he was a Member of Congress 1875-1881; appointed by the Governor as a Democrat to the United States Senate on October 3, 1922, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Thomas E. Watson; took the oath of office on November 21, 1922, and then served just twenty-four hours, from November 21 to 22, 1922, a successor having been elected; was not a candidate for election to fill the vacancy; the first woman to occupy a seat in the United States Senate; the Senator who, having served one day, served the shortest term; and the oldest Senator, at age eighty-seven, at the time of first swearing-in; engaged as a writer and lecturer and resided in Cartersville, Ga., until her death in Atlanta, Ga., January 24, 1930; interment in Oak Hill Cemetery, Cartersville, Ga. Rebecca latemier felton //**WILLIAM FELTON : **// (My husband), a Representative from Georgia; born near Lexington, Oglethorpe County, Ga., June 19, 1823; attended the common and primary schools; was graduated from the University of Georgia at Athens in 1843 and from the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta in 1844; practiced medicine, taught school, and also engaged in agricultural pursuits near Cartersville, Ga.; member of the State house of representatives from Cass (now Bartow) County in 1851; ordained as a Methodist minister in 1857; served as a surgeon during the Civil War; elected as an Independent Democrat to the Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth, and Forty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1875-March 3, 1881); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1880 to the Forty-seventh Congress; resumed his activity as a minister and again followed agricultural pursuits; again served in the State house of representatives 1884-1890; trustee from the State at large for the University of Georgia 1886-1892; died in Cartersville, Ga., September 24, 1909; interment in Oak Hill Cemetery. my
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[] ||  || I was born on June 10, 1835, in Decatur ,Georgia. In 1842, six, years befor my son was born, George and I decided to run away from out life of slavery in Virginia so that our first child could be born free. In 1852 I graduated from the Madison Female collage in Decatur where i met the love of my life at my gradution exercise. we married that year and I returned with him to his fathers farm on the Tennessee Road. The date was November 21, 1922 when I, Rebecca Latimer, took the oath of office becoming the first female US Senator. On January 25, 1930, I died at the age of 94. ||  ||   || dealt with sufferage, race realations, temperance movement,womens rights, and prison reforms. Sfferage: right to vote: a legal right guaranteed by the 15th amendment to the US Constitution; guaranteed to women by the 19th amendment; "American women ... Race realations:Rce relations is the area of sociology that studies the social, political, and economic relations between races at all different levels of society. This area encompasses the study of racism, and of complex political interactions between members of different groups. .
 * **Fan:**teaching, writing, agriculture,  and political debates.
 * Groups:** First woman in the U.S. Senate, a Senator from Georgia, born De Kalb County, Georgia.. ||   ||
 * **Time Line about me:**

Death:1930 ||  ||   || Sfferage: right to vote: a legal right guaranteed by the 15th amendment to the US Constitution; guaranteed to women by the 19th amendment; "American women ... Race realations:Rce relations is the area of sociology that studies the social, political, and economic relations between races at all different levels of society. This area encompasses the study of racism, and of complex political interactions between members of different groups. ||  || Enjoy :) || . ||
 * Birth:1835
 * WHAT I DEALT WITH: dealt with sufferage, race realations, temperance movement,womens rights, and prison reforms.
 * **Here lies my photo album:**
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 * **Activities:** I poloshed his speeches and wrote dozens of newspapers articles, bothe signed and unsigned.I also helped to free the slaves. I supported the womans sufferage ended the convict lease system. Also helped better education for poor little white girls. ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **Work information:** I was a teacher,writer, and a reformer and would have became a first woman to become a politiction and serve in the U.S senate briefly for 2 days. ||  ||
 * **Friends:** Corra Harris, (publised a book about womans suffarage), Hoke Smith (He wrote the weekly addition of the atlanta journal) ||  ||
 * **Activities:** I poloshed his speeches and wrote dozens of newspapers articles, bothe signed and unsigned.I also helped to free the slaves. I supported the womans sufferage ended the convict lease system. Also helped better education for poor little white girls. ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **Work information:** I was a teacher,writer, and a reformer and would have became a first woman to become a politiction and serve in the U.S senate briefly for 2 days. ||  ||
 * **Friends:** Corra Harris, (publised a book about womans suffarage), Hoke Smith (He wrote the weekly addition of the atlanta journal) ||  ||