Artifacts
This handbill for Massachusetts Congresswoman Edith Nourse Rogers’ second term campaign touts her experience and judgment as a legislator. It also includes praise from fellow Bay State Representative A. Platt Andrew who stated that her “experience with public men and affairs is equaled by very few of her contemporaries, whether men or women.” At a time when few women served beyond the “widow’s mandate,” Rogers’ was forming the basis of a long and successful career in the House, becoming the chair of the Veterans Affairs Committee in 1947.
Edith Nourse Rogers Handbill, 1926, Collection of U.S. House of Representatives