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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—IllinoisRuth Hanna McCORMICK
(1880-1944)
McCORMICK, Ruth Hanna,
(daughter of Marcus Alonzo Hanna, wife of Joseph Medill McCormick
and of Albert Gallatin Simms), a Representative from Illinois; born
in Cleveland, Ohio, March 27, 1880; attended Hathaway Brown School
in Cleveland, Dobbs Ferry (N.Y.) School, and Miss Porter’s
School in Farmington, Conn.; owned and operated a dairy and
breeding farm near Byron, Ill.; publisher and president of the
Rockford Consolidated Newspapers (Inc.), Rockford, Ill.; chairman
of the first woman’s executive committee of the Republican
National Committee, and an associate member of the national
committee 1919-1924, in the latter year becoming the first elected
national committeewoman from Illinois and served until 1928; active
worker for the suffrage amendment from 1913 until the Constitution
was amended; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-first Congress
(March 4, 1929-March 3, 1931); was not a candidate for renomination
in 1930, having received the Republican nomination for United
States Senator, in which election she was unsuccessful; resumed her
newspaper interests; married Albert Gallatin Simms, of New Mexico,
who was also a Member of the Seventy-first Congress; and resided in
Albuquerque, N.Mex.; died in Chicago, Ill., on December 31, 1944;
interment in Fairview Cemetery, Albuquerque, N.Mex.
Bibliography
Miller, Kristie. Ruth Hanna McCormick: A Life in Politics,
1880-1944. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1992;
Miller, Kristie. “Ruth Hanna McCormick and the Senatorial
Election of 1930.” Illinois Historical Journal 81
(Autumn 1988): 191-210.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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