Women in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1940–1949

Name	Party-State	Dates served
Frances Payne Bolton	Rep.-Ohio	1940–1969
Margaret Chase Smith ¹	Rep.-Maine	1940–1949
Florence Reville Gibbs	Dem.-Ga.	1940–1941
Katharine Edgar Byron	Dem.-Md.	1941–1943
Veronica Grace Boland	Dem.-Pa.	1942–1943
Clare Boothe Luce	Rep.-Conn.	1943–1947
Winifred Claire Stanley	Rep.-N.Y.	1943–1945
Willa Lybrand Fulmer	Dem.-S.C.	1944–1945
Emily Taft Douglas	Dem.-Ill.	1945–1947
Helen Gahagan Douglas	Dem.-Calif.	1945–1951
Chase Going Woodhouse	Dem.-Conn.	1945–1947; 1949–1951
Helen Douglas Mankin	Dem.-Ga.	1946–1947
Eliza Jane Pratt	Dem.-N.C.	1946–1947
Georgia Lee Lusk	Dem.-N.M.	1947–1949
Katharine Price Collier St. George	Rep.-N.Y.	1947–1965
Reva Zilpha Beck Bosone	Dem.-Utah	1949–1953
Cecil Murray Harden	Rep.-Ind.	1949–1959
Edna Flannery Kelly	Dem.-N.Y.	1949–1969