About this biography
Governor Lady: The Life and Times of Nellie Tayloe Ross (Volume 1) (Missouri Biography Series) by Scheer, Teva J. is a biography available to read on EtoBox.
Governor Lady is the fascinating story of one of the most famous political women of her generation. Nellie Tayloe Ross was elected governor of Wyoming in 1924—just four years after American women won the vote—and she went on to be nominated for U.S. vice president in 1928, named vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee the same year, and appointed the first female director of the Mint in 1932. Ross launched her career when her husband, William Bradford Ross, the preceding governor, die
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- Author
- Scheer, Teva J.
- Publisher
- University of Missouri Press Project MUSE
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780826265050
- Category
- biography
- Subjects
- Memoir, Political Science, History
- Updated
- 2026-03-25