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ODAY, Caroline Love Goodwin, a Representative from New York; born in Perry, Houston County, Ga.,
June 22, 1875; attended private schools and was graduated from Lucy Cobb
Institute, Athens, Ga.; studied art in Paris, Munich, and Holland; served as
president of Rye (N.Y.) School Board; vice chairman of New York Democratic
State committee 1916-1920; associate chairman 1923-1942; delegate to the
Democratic National Conventions in 1924, 1928, 1932, and 1936; commissioner,
State board of social welfare, 1923-1934; elected as a Democrat to the
Seventy-fourth and to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1935-January
3, 1943); chairwoman, Committee on Election of President, Vice President, and
Representatives (Seventy-fifth through Seventy-seventh Congresses); was not a
candidate for renomination in 1942; died in Rye, N.Y., January 4, 1943;
interment in Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla, N.Y.
BibliographyHicks, Paul. Caroline ODay: The Gentlewoman from New York,
New York History, 88 (Summer 2007), 287-305; Caroline Love
Goodwin ODay 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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