Ruth Bryan (Owen) Rohde (1885-1954), Kappa-Nebraska
February 4, 2026
The daughter of William Jennings Bryan, Ruth Bryan Owen became a member of the Seventy-first Congress in 1929 (as Florida’s first woman elected to Congress), and was re-elected to the Seventy-second Congress in 1931. In 1933 President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed her Minister to Denmark; she was the first woman appointed as a United States Ambassador.
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