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Retha E Callahan 1916 - 1995

Retha E Callahan of Cumberland, Harlan County, KY was born on October 6, 1916, and died at age 78 years old on July 12, 1995.
Retha E Callahan
Cumberland, Harlan County, KY 40823
October 6, 1916
July 12, 1995
Female
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  • 10/6
    1916

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    October 6, 1916
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  • 07/12
    1995

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    July 12, 1995
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In 1916, in the year that Retha E Callahan 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 1925, at the age of only 9 years old, Retha was alive when in July, the Scopes Trial - often called the Scopes Monkey Trial - took place, prosecuting a substitute teacher for teaching evolution in school. Tennessee had enacted a law that said it was "unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school". William Jennings Bryan headed the prosecution and Clarence Darrow headed the defense. The teacher was found guilty and fined $100. An appeal to the Supreme Court of Tennessee upheld the law but overturned the guilty verdict.
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