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Bessie Thornton 1916 - 1987

Bessie Thornton of Columbia, Maury County, Tennessee was born on October 1, 1916, and died at age 70 years old in August 1987.

Bessie Thornton

Columbia, Maury County, Tennessee 38401

October 1, 1916

August 1987

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In 1916, in the year that Bessie Thornton was born, suffragette Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman elected to the House of Representatives as a Representative at large from Montana. She was the first woman to hold an elected Federal office. Holding the office for two years, she ran again in 1940 and served another two year term. Montana had granted women unrestricted voting rights in 1914, 6 years before women got the vote nationally.

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In 1923, when she was merely 7 years old, on August 2nd, Calvin Coolidge was sworn in as the 30th President of the United States due to the sudden death of Warren G. Harding. After the scandals of the Harding presidency, Coolidge restored public confidence and was very popular. He won the Presidential election in 1924 but declined to run again in 1928.

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