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Harris & Ewing, 1940- Margaret Chase Smith, First Woman to Serve in Both Houses of Congress, Library of Congress, 1940

Margaret Chase Smith follows in husband's footsteps. Washington, D.C., June 10. Margaret Chase Smith, wife of the late Rep. Clyde Smith, Republican,…

Tags: Congress, House, Margaret Chase Smith, Representatives, Senator

Unknown, 1959 - 1977 Hiram Leong Fong - First Asian American elected to the U.S. Senate, Library of Congress, c. 1960-1970

Senator Hiram Leong Fong became one of Hawaii’s first two U.S. Senators in 1959, upon the state’s admission to the Union. The son of Chinese…

Tags: Asian American, Civil Rights, Hawaii, Hiram Leong Fong, Immigration Reform, US Senator, Voting Rights

PA Times, 1976- Nesta Gallas, First Female President of the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA), PA Times, 2012

Widely published and a mentor for many women and men, Nesta M. Gallas was active in professional organizations throughout her career. She was elected…

Tags: ASPA, LA, Nesta Gallas, NYC, Public Administration, United Nations, Women

Department of Housing and Urban Development, 1980 - Patricia Roberts Harris, First African American Woman to Serve in the United States Cabinet, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Unknown

Patricia Roberts showed a drive for excellence from a young age. Raised by her mother in Illinois, she received five scholarship offers to college and…

Tags: African-Americans, Ambassador, Cabinet, HHS, Luxembourg, Patricia Roberts Harria, Women

Office of Public Affairs: EPA, 1994- Christine Todd Whitman, First Woman Governor of New Jersey, EPA, 2001

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Tags: Christine Todd Whitman, Environment, EPA, Governor, New Jersey, NJ, Women

John Clifton, 2001 - Colin L. Powell, First African American Secretary ofState, US Department of Defense., 1989

Colin Luther Powell was the 65th United States Secretary of State, serving under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2005. He was the first African…

Tags: African-Americans, Colin Powell, Military Service, Secretary of State

Bogdan Giușcă, 2013 Romanian protests, Bogdan Giușcă, 15 September, 2003

The 2013 Romanian protests against the Roșia Montană Project were a series of protests in Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca and dozens of other cities in Romania…

Tags: Bucharest, Environment, Mining, Protest, Ro?ia Montan? Project, Romania

Charles J. Guiteau, A Model Office-Seeker, Library of Congress, 1881

"The government is us. Government jobs belong to the American people, not to politicians, and should be filled only with regard to public service." -…

Tags: Art, Artwork, Garfield, Insanity Trial, Public Service

Charles Henry Alston, A Well Fed Nation is a Fighting Nation - World War II Public Health Initiative, National Archives at College Park, 1943

Charles Alston, an African-American artist and educator, created this drawing in 1943. It shows a strong, healthy family (man, woman, and two…

Tags: African-Americans, Charles Alston, Eating, Health, War, World War II

Paul Reverse Sr., A Westerly View of the Colleges in Cambridge New England, Yale University Art Gallery, 1767

An engraving of Harvard College.

Harvard University was the first college in the U.S., and was also the first to be used as a corporation. It was…

Tags: Civil War, Colleges, Harvard, Harvard University, New England, Schools