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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—FloridaOWEN, Ruth Bryan
(1885—1954)
OWEN, Ruth Bryan, (later Mrs. Borge Rohde, daughter of William Jennings Bryan), a Representative from Florida; born in Jacksonville, Morgan County, Ill., October 2, 1885; educated in public schools, Lincoln, Nebr.; attended Monticello Seminary, Godfrey, Ill., and the University of Nebraska at Lincoln; member of the executive committee of the American Women’s War Relief Fund in London, England; war nurse in the Voluntary Aid Detachment in the Egypt-Palestine campaign, 1915-1918; lecturer, Lyceum and Chautauqua lecture circuit, Miami, Fla., 1918-1928; board of regents of the University of Miami, Miami, Fla., 1925-1928; author; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-first and to the succeeding Congress (March 4, 1929-March 3, 1933); unsuccessful candidate for renomination to the Seventy-third Congress in 1932; delegate to the Interparliamentary Union at London, 1930; appointed Minister to Denmark (April 13, 1933-August 30, 1936); special assistant, Department of State, United Nations Conference, San Francisco, Calif., 1945; alternate delegate, United Nations General Assembly, 1949; member of the Advisory Board of the Federal Reformatory for Women, 1938-1954; member of the board of trustees of the Starr Commonwealth for Boys, 1941-1954; died on July 26, 1954, in Copenhagen, Denmark; interment in Ordrup Cemetery, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Bibliography
Vickers, Sarah Pauline. “The Life of Ruth Bryan Owen: Florida’s First Congresswoman and America’s First Woman Diplomat.” Ph.D. dissertation, Florida State University, 1994.
Owen, Ruth Bryan. Caribbean Caravel.
New York: Dodd, Mead, and Company, 1949.
———. The Castle in the Silver Wood and other Scandinavian Fairy Tales.
New York: Dodd, Mead, and Company, 1939.
———. Denmark Caravan.
New York: Dodd, Mead, and Company, 1936.
———. The Duties of a Congressman / Remarks of Ruth Bryan Owen in the House of Representatives, December 18, 1929
. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1930.
———. Elements of Public Speaking.
New York: H. Liveright, 1931.
———. Leaves From a Greenland Diary.
New York: Dodd Mead and Company, 1935.
———. Look Forward Warrior.
New York: Dodd Mead and Company, 1942.
———. Picture Tales from Scandinavia.
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, Inc., 1939.
“Ruth Bryan Owen” in Women in Congress, 1917-1990.
Prepared under the direction of the Commission on the Bicentenary by the Office of the Historian, U.S. House of Representatives. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1991.
U. S. Congress. House. Arguments and Hearings before Elections Committee No. 1; Contested Election Case of William C. Lawson v. Ruth Bryan Owen, from the Fourth Congressional District of Florida.
71st Cong., 2nd sess., 1930. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1930.
U. S. Congress. House. Report No. 968. Committee on Elections No. 1. William C. Lawson-Ruth Bryan Owen Election Case. Report of the Hon. Carroll L. Beedy, of Maine, chairman.
71st Cong., 2nd sess., 1930. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1930.
Vickers, Sarah Pauline. “The Life of Ruth Bryan Owen: Florida’s First Congresswoman and America’s First Woman Diplomat.” Ph.D. diss., Florida State University, 1994.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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