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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—ArkansasHattie Wyatt CARAWAY
(1878-1950)
Senate Years of Service:
1931-1945Party: DemocratCARAWAY, Hattie Wyatt,
(wife of Thaddeus Horatius Caraway), a Senator from Arkansas; born
in Bakerville, Humphreys County, Tenn., February 1, 1878; attended
the public schools and graduated from Dickson (Tenn.) Normal
College in 1896; thereafter located in Jonesboro, Ark.; appointed
as a Democrat on November 13, 1931, and subsequently elected on
January 12, 1932, to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of her husband, Thaddeus H. Caraway; reelected
in 1932 and 1938 and served from November 13, 1931, to January 3,
1945; unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1944; first woman
elected to the United States Senate; chairwoman, Committee on
Enrolled Bills (Seventy-third through Seventy-eighth Congresses);
member of the United States Employees’ Compensation
Commission 1945-1946; member of the Employees’ Compensation
Appeals Board from July 1946 until her death in Falls Church, Va.,
December 21, 1950; interment in West Lawn Cemetery, Jonesboro,
Ark.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Dictionary of American
Biography; Notable American Women, 1607-1950; Kincaid,
Diane, ed. Silent Hattie Speaks: The Personal Journal of Senator
Hattie Caraway. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1979; Malone,
David. Hattie and Huey: An Arkansas Tour. Fayetteville:
University of Arkansas Press, 1989.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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