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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—GeorgiaRebecca Latimer FELTON
(1835-1930)
Senate Years of Service:
1922-1922Party: DemocratFELTON, Rebecca Latimer,
(wife of William Harrell Felton), a Senator from Georgia; born near
Decatur, De Kalb County, Ga., June 10, 1835; attended the common
schools and graduated from the Madison Female College in 1852;
moved to Bartow County, Ga., in 1854; taught school; writer,
lecturer, and reformer with special interest in agricultural and
women’s issues; served as secretary to her husband while he
was a Member of Congress 1875-1881; appointed by the Governor as a
Democrat to the United States Senate on October 3, 1922, to fill
the vacancy caused by the death of Thomas E. Watson, and served
from October 3, 1922, to November 22, 1922, a successor having been
elected; did not take the oath of office until November 21, 1922,
and served just twenty-four hours while the Senate was in session;
was not a candidate for election to fill the vacancy; aged 87 at
the time of her appointment, is the oldest senator ever sworn in
for a first term; the first woman to occupy a seat in the United
States Senate; engaged as a writer and lecturer and resided in
Cartersville, Ga., until her death in Atlanta, Ga., January 24,
1930; interment in Oak Hill Cemetery, Cartersville, Ga.
Bibliography
Dictionary of American Biography; Felton, Rebecca L. My
Memories of Georgia Politics. Atlanta: Index Printing Co.,
1911; Talmadge, John E. Rebecca Latimer Felton: Nine Stormy
Decades. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1960.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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