Caraway Hattie Ophelia Wyatt
photographed c. 1914
Car·a·way
(kăr′ə-wā′), Hattie Ophelia Wyatt 1878-1950. American legislator. Appointed to fill out her husband's term in the US Senate in 1931, she became in 1932 the first elected woman senator and served until 1945.
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