Hattie W. Caraway (D-AR)

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Related Link: Hattie W. Caraway: A Featured Biography

Hattie Caraway became the first woman to formally take up the gavel as the Senate's acting president pro tempore on October 19, 1943. In this photo Caraway holds a traditional gavel (not the Senate’s unique ivory gavel) as she reenacts the historic event for reporters.

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