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Aurora "Lola" Greene Baldwin (1860 – June 22, 1957) was an American woman who became one of the first policewomen in the United States. In 1908, she was sworn in by the City of Portland as Superintendent of the Women's Auxiliary to the Police Department for the Protection of Girls (later renamed the Women's Protective Division), with the rank of detective.
Portland Police Bureau representation at Portland's pride parade in 2016. The Portland Police Bureau was founded in 1870, and has been making societal changes in their city before others across the country, naming the first female police officer, Lola Baldwin, in 1908, being the first Bureau to ever do so in the United States. [1]
On April 1, 1908, the bureau became the first in the United States to hire a female police officer, Lola Baldwin, who became the Superintendent of its newly established Women's Protective Division, especially noted for helping women during a time that PPB's officers focused on enforcement and patrol of people who could pay them under the table.
Other early police officers include Alice Stebbins Wells, commissioned as an officer in 1910 in Los Angeles, and Lola Baldwin, an early policewoman working for the Portland Police Department on women's and children's issues. She officially began her work in 1908, but some draw distinctions between their arrest powers and the content of their work.
Lola Baldwin was the first known woman performing duties as police officer in the United States; she worked at Portland Police Bureau until 1922. The first Mother's Day was observed; Anna Jarvis is noted as the driving force for recognition of this holiday. [56]
Baldwin, meanwhile, is touting past accomplishments. Lately, that has included the role she played in the passage of the Affordable Care Act , which occurred when she was serving in the U.S. House .
Lola's Room is operated by McMenamins as a "secondary venue" on the second floor of the Crystal Ballroom, [1] [2] a historic building on West Burnside Street.The space is named after Lola Baldwin (1860–1957), one of the first policewomen in the United States.
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