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The First Woman in NH to Hold National Office

by: Dean Barker

Tue Jul 13, 2010 at 11:05:08 AM EDT
Did you know that Carol Shea-Porter was the first woman in the long history of our state to win a national office?

Now you know.

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The First Woman in NH to Hold National Office | 7 comments
she sounds the part (4.00 / 3)
the first time I heard the wonderful CSP speak I got it...she is 'good people' as myh Brooklyn buddies used to say, not someone sent from Central Casting to lead us to the promised land,

Annie 2012!
Some of the R's (4.00 / 2)
Some of the R's are still screeching about the time CSP said that congresswomen from both parties agreed that if the men were sent home, health care could get done.  The idea of women of either party governing with or without men present has driven way too many NH Republican men so crazy that they have totally lost their senses of humor.

So that is another reason I am so proud that Carol Shea Porter is my congresswoman - it was about time that New Hampshire elected a woman congresswoman.

I want to mention that we had four other excellent Democratic women serve as congressional nominees prior to CSP's election: Arnie Arneson, Mary Rauh, Katrinna Swett and Martha Fuller Clark. CSP was the 5th. If I am not mistaken, it was not until 2008 that Republicans finally nominated a woman for an office higher than Executive Council (Jennifer Horn).  



"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."  Franklin D. Roosevelt    

And Helen Bliss, our CD-02 nominee in 1974 n/t (4.00 / 1)

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Dudley in 84, Sylvia Chaplain in 72.... (4.00 / 1)


2012 starts today.
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And Doris Haddock in 2004 n/t (4.00 / 1)

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I knew..... (4.00 / 1)
I was forgetting someone, but didn't  realize it was 3 someones (Dudley, Sylvia and Helen). But as to Granny D, she was senate, here I was describing congressional. I will be eternally grateful to her for bailing us out in '04.



"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."  Franklin D. Roosevelt    
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And (of course) senate nominee Jeanne Shaheen too in '02! (0.00 / 0)
(to round out the national office nominees...)

birch, finch, beech
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