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Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives
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NOLAN, Mae Ella, (wife of John Ignatius Nolan),
a Representative from California; born in San Francisco, Calif.,
September 20, 1886; attended the public schools, St. Vincents Convent and
Ayres Business College of San Francisco; elected as a Republican to the
Sixty-seventh and to the Sixty-eighth Congresses by special election, January
23, 1923 to fill the vacancies caused by the death of her husband, John
Ignatius Nolan, who had been reelected in 1922, and she served from January 23,
1923, to March 3, 1925; chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office
Department (Sixty-eighth Congress); was not a candidate for renomination in
1924 to the Sixty-ninth Congress; moved to Sacramento in her later years where
she died July 9, 1973; interment in Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma, Calif.
BibliographyMae Ella Hunt Nolan 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.
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