Ruth Bryan Owen Rohde

(1885-1954) lived in Lincoln. Diplomat, author, U.S. Congresswoman, was the first woman elected to the House of Representatives from a southern state, first woman member of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives, her appointment as U.S. Minister to Denmark in 1933 made her the first woman to serve as a diplomat in the U.S. Foreign Service. Consult American National Biography, Vol 18 (1999) 782-783.

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