Female correspondent covers the Chicago Convention of the Republican Party

Mary Ashton Rice Livermore covers the Republican National Convention in Chicago for the New Covenant periodical, becoming the first woman to report from a political convention. (By John Osborne)
Source Citation
Joseph Nathan Kane, ed., Famous First Facts (New York: H.W. Wilson Company, 1981), 425.
    Date Certainty
    Exact
    Type
    Campaigns/Elections
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