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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—OregonNan Wood HONEYMAN
(1881-1970)
HONEYMAN, Nan Wood, a
Representative from Oregon; born in West Point, Orange County,
N.Y., July 15, 1881; moved with her parents to Portland, Oreg., in
1884; attended private schools, was graduated from St. Helens Hall,
Portland, Oreg., in 1898, and later attended Finch School, New York
City; delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1933 which
ratified the Twenty-first amendment to the Constitution of the
United States and served as president; member of the State house of
representatives 1935-1937; delegate to the Democratic National
Conventions in 1936 and 1940; elected as a Democrat to the
Seventy-fifth Congress (January 3, 1937-January 3, 1939);
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1938 to the Seventy-sixth
Congress and for election in 1940 to the Seventy-seventh Congress;
senior representative of the Pacific Coast Office of Price
Administration from August 1941 to May 1942; appointed by the
Multnomah County Commissioners to the State senate in 1941 to fill
a vacancy and served until her resignation in 1942; collector of
customs, twenty-ninth district, Portland, Oreg., from May 1, 1942,
to July 13, 1953; died in Woodacre, Calif., December 10, 1970;
cremated; interment in family plot in Riverview Cemetery, Portland,
Oreg.
Bibliography
”Nan Wood Honeyman” in Women in Congress,
1917-2006. Prepared under the direction of the Committee On
House Administration by the Office of History & Preservation,
U. S. House of Representatives. Washington: Government Printing
Office, 2006.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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