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WEIS, Jessica McCullough, a Representative from New York; born Jessica McCullough, in Chicago,
Ill., July 8, 1901; attended the Franklin School, Buffalo, N.Y.; graduate of
Miss Wrights School, Bryn Mawr, Pa., and Madam Rieffels School, New York
City; appointed to Inter-American Commission of Women; vice chairman, Monroe
County Republican committee, 1937-1952; president, National Federation of
Republican Women, in 1940 and 1941; member of the Republican National Committee
1944-1963; delegate at large to the Republican National Conventions, 1940,
1944, 1948, 1952, and 1956; member of the National Civil Defense Advisory
Council, 1953, 1956, and 1960; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-sixth and
Eighty-seventh Congresses (January 3, 1959-January 3, 1963); was not a
candidate for reelection to the Eighty-eighth Congress in 1962; died on May 1,
1963, in Rochester, N.Y.; interment in Mount Hope Cemetery.
BibliographyJessica McCullough Weis 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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