Arkansas Women's Hall of Fame: Hattie Caraway
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When "Silent Hattie," Sen. Caraway spoke, her voice was loud and clear.
Her nickname may have been "Silent Hattie," but when Sen. Caraway spoke, her voice was loud and clear. Hattie Caraway became the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate — as well as the first to preside over the Senate, chair a Senate committee and preside over a Senate hearing.
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Arkansas Women's Hall of Fame: Hattie Caraway
8/28/2019 | 1m 9sVideo has Closed Captions
Her nickname may have been "Silent Hattie," but when Sen. Caraway spoke, her voice was loud and clear. Hattie Caraway became the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate — as well as the first to preside over the Senate, chair a Senate committee and preside over a Senate hearing.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipShe was given the nickname Silent Hattie.
But when Hattie Caraway spoke, she sent a message that was loud and clear.
Caraway was thrust into the political spotlight when she was elected to finish out the term of her late husband Thaddeus, who had died during his term as a US Senator in 1931.
This made her the first woman to be elected into the Senate.
She proved to be more than a temporary stand in for her late husband, Caraway campaigned for an additional term and won by a landslide.
She became the first woman to preside over the Senate.
The 1st to chair a Senate committee and the 1st to preside over a Senate hearing, she said.
A president for women.
In politics with her progressive thinking standing up for women's rights silent Hattie's efforts never went unnoticed and her silence.
Just might have been her strongest weapon of power and influence.
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