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Timeline of Hattie Caraway’s Senate Breakthrough and Family Legacy
The story recounts Hattie Caraway becoming the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate after succeeding her husband Thaddeus Caraway of Arkansas. It notes their three sons attended West Point and places her rise in context with later female presidential candidates and earlier women in public office since the 19th century.
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U.S Military Academy
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Arkansas
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