Virginia Dodd Smith

(1911- ) lived in Chappell, Deuel County. Homemaker, lecturer, was U.S. Congresswoman from 1975 to 1989, the longest term to date served by a Nebraska woman, helped establish the House Rural Health Care Coalition to work for better medical care in rural areas, drafted a bill that raised the limit on gross farm assets taxable under federal inheritance laws, the first Republican woman to serve on the House Appropriations Committee. Consult Esther Stineman, American Political Women (Libraries Unlimited, 1980) 141-142 and Sunday /Omaha/ World Herald Magazine of the Midlands, December 11, 1988, pp. 12-13, 18-19 and Lincoln Journal Star, May 24, 1998, pp. C-1, C-6.

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