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The National Federation of Republican Women (NFRW) is a political action committee (PAC) that serves as the women's wing of the Republican Party in the United States. It was founded in 1938 by Marion Martin (1901-1987), who was the assistant chair of the Republican National Committee (RNC).
The Wish List was established in 1992 following an organizing effort in December, 1991, led by Lynn Shapiro who became the Executive Director. [3] Glenda Greenwald, who was president of the PAC, was among the women activists predicting that 1992 would be the Year of the Woman, and she argued that the GOP was not sufficiently funding women candidates. [4]
Lynn Morley Martin became the first Republican woman elected to a House leadership position as vice chair of the House Republican Conference in 1985. Margaret Chase Smith became the first woman elected in both chambers of Congress; she first entered the House of Representatives in 1940, before her election into the Senate in 1948.
Republican: January 11, 1993: January 16, 1995: 2 years, 5 days Gail Phillips Alaska: House of Representatives Republican: January 16, 1995: January 19, 1999: 4 years, 3 days Jo Ann Davidson Ohio: House of Representatives: Republican: January 3, 1995: December 31, 2000: 5 years, 363 days Bev Clarno Oregon: House of Representatives Republican ...
The Women's National Republican Club is the oldest private club for Republican women in the United States, and was founded by Henrietta Wells Livermore in 1921. The club grew out of the earlier women's suffrage movement in New York which led to the Nineteenth Amendment .
The Republican Party, represented by Donald Trump and JD Vance, is expected to come to power in the United States in January 2025 following the 2024 election. Trump, who was elected president in 2016 but lost a re-election bid in 2020 to Joe Biden , defeated vice president Kamala Harris , who began her campaign following president Joe Biden's ...
She was one of the founding members of the National Women's Political Caucus in 1971, and one of its most prominent Republican members. [11] She would serve as the NWPC spokesperson to the 1972 Republican National Convention. [12] Through the convention, she was influential in the adoption of a women's rights plank in the party's 1972 platform. [9]
Born on April 12, 1884, in Scranton, Pennsylvania, as Marion Margery Warren, [9] Margery Scranton was a Mayflower descendant, [10] who was a daughter of Everett Warren (1859–1916) and Ellen Hower (Willard) Warren (1861–1949), and the sister of Dorothy Josephine (Warren) Cowdrey (1887–1971) and Edward Willard Warren (1895–1974).