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Nancy Witcher Astor, Viscountess Astor (19 May 1879 – 2 May 1964) was an American-born British politician who was the first woman seated as a Member of Parliament (MP), serving from 1919 to 1945. [ a ] [ 1 ] Astor was born in Danville , Virginia and raised in Greenwood , Virginia.
1 1918 to 1935. 2 1935 to 1950. 3 1950 to 1965. ... This is a list of women who have been elected as members of Parliament ... Nancy Astor [a] Plymouth Sutton: 1919: ...
This is a list of the first female members of parliament in each country and territory. Princess Isabel of Brazil could have become the first female parliamentarian in 1871, as the Brazilian constitution reserved a seat in the Senate for the heir presumptive to the throne once they reached 25 years of age.
The tallest female MP of all time is believed to be Antoinette Sandbach at 6 feet 4 inches (1.93 m) in 2011, when she was a Senedd Cymru – Welsh Parliament (formerly National Assembly for Wales) member, [35] later stated to be 6 feet 5 inches (1.96 m) in 2019. [36]
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi strode into the Capitol on Thursday morning dressed in a suffragist-white pantsuit, flanked by top aides as her filmmaker daughter, Alexandra, who has for three decades ...
Updated February 21, 2017 at 1:07 PM In the late 1800s and early 1900s, a new breed of women started to emerge from the depths of circus tents around the world: the strong-woman.
When her husband was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Louth in Lincolnshire, she moved with him from Grimsby to Louth and remained politically active. When Thomas Wintringham died in 1921, she was selected as the Liberal candidate to replace him, and on 22 September she won the 1921 Louth by-election, becoming the first ever female Liberal MP and the third woman elected to the House of ...
In 2021, more than 310,000 women lost their lives to cardiovascular disease. In a February 2025 press release, Nancy Brown, CEO of the AHA, shared, "Women still remain underdiagnosed and ...