RUTH HANNA McCORMICK - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 04/18/1930 - HFSID 140224

RUTH HANNA McCORMICK
The American suffragette and Congresswoman sends letter to colleague on official letterhead, signs name in black ink
Typed letter signed: "Ruth Hanna McCormick" in black ink. 1 page, 8x10½. Written on personal U.S. House of Representatives letterhead. Washington, D.C. April 18, 1930. Addressed to Mr. John Barrett, Chairman of the International Pan American Committee. In full: "Thank you so much for your flattering and cordial telegram. It was a great victory and I am feeling very happy over the outcome although I realize the great responsibility which is carried with it. I shall hope to have the pleasure of seeing you during the spring. Very sincerely yours". Ruth Hanna McCormick (1880-1944) was a U.S. Representative from Illinois; she was the daughter of Mark Hanna, a U.S. Senator and President McKinley's political manager, as well as the wife of Senator Joseph Medill McCormack. McCormick served as the chairman of the first woman's executive committee of the Republican National Committee, and as an associate member of the national committee from 1919 to 1924, in the latter year becoming the first elected national committeewoman from Illinois and served until 1928. She was an active member of the Woman's Suffrage movement, working as the head of the Congressional Committee for the National American Woman Suffrage Association from 1913-1914, during which time she produced the eight-reel melodrama Your Girl and Mine (1914). After her time in the House of Representative she was nominated by the Republican Party for Senate but lost, ultimately returning to her newspaper roots, running a radio station and two newspapers in Albuquerque, New Mexico before her death after falling off a horse. Normal mailing folds. Toned. Stained in top margin. Paper affixed in bottom margin. Mounting residue on verso. Light surface creases. Otherwise, fine condition.