14 Facts About Hattie Caraway

Hattie Ophelia Wyatt Caraway was an American politician who was United States Senator from Arkansas from 1931 to 1945.

Hattie Caraway was the first woman elected to the Senate, the first woman to serve a full term as a United States senator, and the first woman to be reelected to the Senate.

Hattie Caraway was the first woman to preside over the Senate.

Hattie Caraway won reelection to a full term in 1932 with the active support of fellow Senator Huey Long, of neighboring Louisiana.

Hattie Caraway taught school for a time before in 1902 marrying Thaddeus Caraway, whom she had met in college.

Hattie Caraway was the first female senator to preside over the body as well as the first to chair a committee.

Hattie Caraway helped her to amass nearly twice as many votes as her closest opponent.

Mrs Hattie Caraway did not understand that it was a matter of design until it had been repeated several times.

Hattie Caraway was the young, dynamic former president of the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville who had already gained a national reputation.

The lack of visibility with her constituents may have been the primary reason that Hattie Caraway lost the 1944 nomination.

Hattie Caraway sustained a special interest in relief for farmers, flood control, and veterans' benefits, all of direct concern to her constituents, and cast her votes for nearly every New Deal measure.

Hattie Caraway supported Roosevelt's foreign policy, arguing for his Lend-Lease bill from her perspective as a mother with two sons in the United States Army.

Hattie Caraway was a prohibitionist and voted against anti-lynching legislation along with other Southern Democratic senators.

Hattie Caraway was generally a supporter of the New Deal.