REVA BECK BOSONE - AUTOGRAPH - HFSID 70425
Price: $80.00
REVA BECK BOSONE
The congresswoman signs her name on this 4½x2 page
Signature: "Reva Beck Bosone" in black ink. 4½x1¾ card with
caption. Reva Beck Bosone (1895 -1983) was a U.S. Representative from
Utah. She was the first woman elected to Congress from Utah. She graduated from
the University of Utah College of Law at Salt Lake City in 1930 and was admitted
to the bar the same year. Bosone practiced law in Helper, Utah from 1931 to 1933
and Salt Lake City from 1933 to 1936. She served as member of the State house of
representatives 1933-1935, serving as floor leader in 1935. Bosone was elected
Salt Lake City judge in 1936 and served until elected to Congress. During the
Second World War, she was chairman of Women's Army Corps Civilian Advisory
Committee of the Ninth Service Command. Bosone was elected as a Democrat to
the Eighty-first and Eighty-second Congresses (January 3, 1949-January 3,
1953). She was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1952 to the
Eighty-third Congress and for election in 1954 to the Eighty-fourth Congress.
She resumed the practice of law in Salt Lake City from 1953 to 1957, and was
legal counsel to Safety and Compensation Subcommittee of House Committee on
Education and Labor 1957-1960. Toned. Irregular edges. Corners rounded. Light
surface creases. Otherwise, fine condition.
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