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"1st Female Ambassador" Ruth Bryan Owen Hand Signed 2X3.5 Card:
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Ruth

Baird Bryan Leavitt Owen Rohde,

also known as Ruth Bryan Owen, (October 2, 1885 – July 26, 1954)

was elected to two terms in the U.S. House of Representatives and

was the first woman appointed as a United States ambassador. The daughter of

attorneys William Jennings Bryan and Mary E. Baird, she was a Democrat, who

in 1929 was elected from Florida's 4th district as Florida's first female U.S. Representative and the second

from the South after Alice Mary Robertson.[1] Representative Owen was also the first woman to

earn a seat on the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs. She campaigned

for prohibition. In 1933, she became the first woman to be

appointed as a U.S. ambassador, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt selected

her as Ambassador to Denmark and Iceland.

Ruth Bryan was born on October 2, 1885, in Jacksonville, Illinois, to

William Jennings Bryan and his wife Mary E. Baird. Ruth's father was an

attorney and a three-time presidential candidate. Growing up Ruth had to move

several times depending on her father's work in politics. Ruth attended public

schools in Washington, D.C and the Monticello Female Academy in Godfrey, Illinois. In 1901 she began to take classes at

the University of Nebraska. In

1903 Bryan dropped out of the University of Nebraska to

marry William H. Leavitt, a

well-known Newport, Rhode Island portrait

painter. The couple met when he was painting Bryan's father's portrait. The

couple had two children before divorcing in 1909. Bryan married Reginald Owen, a

British Army officer, in 1910, and had two more children with him. Her second

husband died in 1928. She spent three years in Oracabessa, Jamaica, where

she oversaw the design and construction of her home, Golden

Clouds. It is now operated as a luxury villa.

Owen kept her home in Jamaica for more than three decades and spent many

winters there, particularly in later years when she lived in Denmark and New York City. She detailed her time in Jamaica and

experiences at Golden Clouds in her book, Caribbean Caravel. During

World War I, Bryan served as a war nurse in the Voluntary Aid Detachment in the

Egypt–Palestine campaign, 1915–1918. She also served as a secretary for

the American Women's War

Relief Fund. Owen first ran for office in 1926 for the Democratic

nomination for Florida's 4th congressional district. It was a year after the

death of her father. It then included nearly the entire east coast of the Keys: with Miami, Orlando and St. Augustine. She lost by

fewer than 800 votes. From

1925 to 1928, she was an administrator at the University of Miami. Two

years later, after the death of her husband, she ran again. Since Owen played a

significant role when hurricane hit Miami in 1927 and put effort on promotions

on newspapers, she won over Sears by more than 14,000 votes  and

was elected to Congress in November 1928 and began her term of office on March

4, 1929, while a widow and mother of four. Her election was contested on the

grounds that she had lost her citizenship by marrying an alien. By the Cable Act in 1922, she could petition for her

citizenship, which she did in 1925, less than the seven years required by the

Constitution. She argued her case before the House Committee on Elections,

saying that no American man had ever lost his citizenship by marriage. She said

that she lost her citizenship because she was a woman, not because of her

marital status. The U.S. House of

Representatives voted in her favor. Owen

ran for re-election in 1930, defeating Daytona Beach attorney Dewitt T.

Deen by a wide margin in the June Democratic primary election. As

the Republican Party was running its first primary campaign in Florida history

in 1930 and did not nominate a candidate to run against the Democratic nominee,

the pro-prohibition Owen was heralded in the press as presumably

having won re-election by virtue of her Democratic nomination. Owen's two-year

term won in 1930 would prove to be her last, however, as in the 1932 Democratic

primary, she was defeated by Democratic candidate J. Mark Wilcox, who advocated the repeal of Prohibition. Her

Congressional career thus came to an end in March 1933. 

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