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House Trivia Timeline. Featured Resources for National History Day Party Democrat. Congress es 72nd — , 73rd — , 74th — , 75th — , 76th — , 77th — , 78th — Biography Hattie Wyatt Caraway served for 14 years in the U. Caraway's Wit Matched Husband's. External Research Collections Bulk of her papers were destroyed. Paper: Correspondence with Dallas Herndon of the Arkansas History Commission concerning the Arkansas centennial half-dollar and a proposed biography of T. Caraway by Horace Adams.

Paper: March 29 letter to Harry B. Solmson concerning legislation prohibiting the export of peeler logs to European countries and July 18 campaign postcard; correspondence on campaign and political matters with Griffin Smith of the Arkansas Supreme Court. Paper: Scrapbook, including photographs, from her election in the Huey Long papers.

Oral history: Discussed in interview with Morris Lewis Witten, Paper: In Sue Shelton White papers, bulk Paper: Ca. Paper: Correspondence in Charles F. Johnson papers, Correspondence ; photographs ca. Finding aid available online. The journal was edited by Diane D. Paper: In various collections including letters to her son in Forrest Caraway papers, ; correspondence in Clyde Taylor Ellis papers, ; correspondence in the R.

A staunch supporter of his poor-white farm constituency, Thaddeus was reelected in but suffered a blood clot after kidney stone surgery and died unexpectedly in , not completing his term. Arkansas law required a special election to elect a senator to complete Caraway's term. In the interim Governor Harvey Parnell appointed Hattie to the post out of respect for her husband. Hattie Caraway entered the 72nd Congress in December with a commission from the governor to occupy her husband's Senate seat until the special election, called for January The Arkansas Democratic Committee, unable to agree on a candidate for the special election, ended up nominating Hattie as a compromise.

Governor Parnell supported her with the understanding that she would step aside and make way for his candidacy in the election of In these strange circumstances Hattie Caraway became the first woman elected to the Senate. As an historic "first," this shy, quiet, at times awkward, year-old housewife became the subject of enormous publicity.

One journalist called her "one of the most visible women in America. In sharp contrast to her voluble husband, Caraway would sit in the Senate chamber knitting or reading while she listened politely to the endless speeches.

Despite her apparent diffidence, she was determined to continue her husband's work, to vote, as he would have, in unswerving support of the interests of the poor farm people now suffering through the deepening Great Depression. As the deadline approached in Arkansas to announce candidacy for the regular senatorial election in , seven men, including Governor Parnell, prepared to run for "Fighting Thad" Caraway's Senate seat.

They were dumbstruck when, at the very last moment, Hattie's application to run for the Senate arrived in Little Rock by special delivery. One opponent was quoted as saying that out of the estimated , votes, "she might receive 3," from feminists and personal friends.