Margaret Chase Smith
Member of the United States Senate from Maine (1897-1995) · United States · On the map · Politicians · Died at 97
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 U.S. Congress.
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A Republican, she was among the first to criticize the tactics of Joseph McCarthy in her 1950 speech "Declaration of Conscience".
