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Elizabeth Blackwell (3 February 1821 – 31 May 1910) was an Anglo-American physician, notable as the first woman to earn a medical degree in the United States, and the first woman on the Medical Register of the General Medical Council for the United Kingdom. [1]
Georgia Neese Clark Gray was the first woman Treasurer of the United States; she served under President Harry Truman. [113] [4] Eugenie Anderson became the first woman ever to serve as a chief of mission at the ambassador rank, and as such the first woman to serve as United States Ambassador to Denmark; she served under President Harry S ...
the first woman to serve as mayor of an American city. [2] [1]: 237–238, 240 1888. Mary D. Lowman, first woman elected mayor of Oskaloosa, Kansas also the second woman mayor in Kansas. She served alongside the first all-woman city council in the United States. [134] They were all re-elected in 1889. [135] 1889
The first lady of the United States is the hostess of the White House.The position is traditionally filled by the wife of the president of the United States, but, on occasion, the title has been applied to women who were not presidents' wives, such as when the president was a bachelor or widower, or when the wife of the president was unable to fulfill the duties of the first lady.
Kamala Harris, United States (2021–present): The first woman to be inaugurated as Vice President of the United States in American history. Sandra Mason , Barbados (2021–present): The first time that a country's first president was female (Barbados has not had a male president to date).
The role of First Lady of the United States has evolved since Martha Washington's husband, George, took the oath of office in 1789. Notably, Martha wasn't even called first lady—the title wasn't ...
Walker thus became the first woman in US History to have a United States military installation exclusively named after her. [38] [39] Walker is an honoree on a 2024 American Women quarter. [40] The design depicts Walker holding her pocket surgical kit with the Medal of Honor and a surgeon's pin on her uniform. [41]
Jeannette Pickering Rankin (June 11, 1880 – May 18, 1973) was an American politician and women's rights advocate who became the first woman to hold federal office in the United States. She was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives as a Republican from Montana in 1916 for one term, then was elected again in 1940 .