Women in Politics

Women in Politics

Guam Times Weekly, volume 1 number 14, May 16 1964, Women in Politics, article, Editor Marjorie E. Smith, Territorial Part Women’s Auxiliary, Barrigada Junior High School, Barrigada, KUAM, Democratic party, Republican party, politics, Senator Margaret Chase Smith, United States Congress, Guam Congress, Guam Legislature, legislators, Organic Act, Rosa Aguigui, Mariana L.G. Lujan, Asuncion Torres, Concepcion C. Barrett, Lagrimas L.G. Untalan, Cynthia Torres, Isabel P. Guzman, Chalan Pago, Sinajana, Ana San Nicholas, Asan, Carmen Matias, Tamuning Madeleine Bordallo, Ricardo J. Bordallo, Atlantic City, New Jersey, Governor Manuel F.L. Guerrero, Jack Barrett, North Carolina, Father Duenas Memorial School, FDMS, Cathedral Academy, San Francisco, California, University of California, Ateneo College of Law, Philippines, Washington D.C., Department of Interior, Department of Defense, President Harry S. Truman

An article by Editor Marjorie E. Smith. Editor Smith writes about the advances that women have made in politics, focusing on Senator Margaret Chase Smith, stateside, and a plethora of women on the island of Guam, forebearers being the four women from the Guam Congress, now Legislature, Rosa Aguigui, Mariana L.G. Lujan, Asuncion Torres, and Concepcion C. Barrett, post Organic Act includes Lagrimas L.G. Untalan and Cynthia Torres. Editor Smith focuses on Barrett however, for her many accomplishments: earned her bachelor’s and currently her master’s; elected to the Guam Congress; exchanged heavily with the United States Congress for civil government for Guam, i.e. the Organic Act, amongst many other milestones in her life. Other women in government as well are Madeleine Bordallo, the Territorial Party Women’s Auxiliary Convention members, Barrett (president), Isabel P. Guzman (vice-president), Ana San Nicholas (secretary), and Carmen Matias (treasurer)

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1964-05

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