On this day, January 12, in 1932 (77 years ago), Ophelia Wyatt Caraway, a democrat from Arkansas, became the first woman elected to the United States Senate. She was appointed to the Senate two months prior to fill the seat of her late husband Thaddeus Horatio Caraway. Caraway was re-elected to the Senate in 1938, but did not receive a renomination in 1944 and was appointed to the Federal Employees Compensation Committee by President Franklin Roosevelt.
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