Mar 07, 2024 - Sale 2661

Sale 2661 - Lot 81

Price Realized: $ 500
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Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
"I QUITE AGREE WITH YOU ABOUT THE DESIRABILITY OF MORE APPOINTMENTS FOR WOMEN" HARDING, WARREN G. Typed Letter Signed, as President, to women's suffrage activist Harriet Taylor Upton, requesting a summary of the [Senate?] investigating committee's inquiry into the appointment of women [to positions in government?], expressing difficulty in appointing women, and acknowledging a "Chicago candidacy" [Chicagoan Lottie Holman O'Neill, who, in 1922, became first woman in Illinois General Assembly?]. 1 page, 4to, White House stationery, with integral blank; horizontal fold. Washington, 4 December 1922
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". . . When the investigating committee gets through with its inquiry about the appointment and employment of women I would be very glad to have a digest of it for my own information. . . . I quite agree with you about the desirability of more appointments for women. I am always driving to that end, but I do find it exceedingly difficult. . . ."
On September 26, 1922, GA Senator Tom Watson died in the middle of his term, just days after the close of the congressional session. GA Governor Thomas Hardwick appointed Rebecca Latimer Felton to fill the office until the November election, hoping to win the favor of some women, who had just achieved suffrage two years before. Suffragists petitioned President Harding to call a special session of Congress to allow Felton to be sworn in before a replacement could be elected, but Harding declined to authorize the expense of a special session for the benefit of one Senator. In November, Judge Walter George won the election to replace Senator Watson, but one day before George was to be sworn in, he allowed Felton to be sworn in and serve for the day, making her the first woman to serve in the U.S. Senate.