Alice Mary Robertson

Alice Mary Robertson ( born January 2, 1854 in Tullahassee, Wagoner County, Oklahoma, † July 1, 1931 in Muskogee, Oklahoma) was an American politician. Between 1921 and 1923, she represented the second electoral district of the state of Oklahoma in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Alice Robertson was born as the daughter of William Robertson and his wife Ann in the field of the Creek nation in the former Indian Territory, where her parents were active in mission. There she grew up in her early years and was taught by her parents. Later she attended Elmira College in Elmira (New York).

Between 1873 and 1879 she worked in the Indian affairs in Washington. She then returned to her home, where she taught in Tullahassee in the Indian school as a teacher. Between 1880 and 1882 she was a teacher at the Indian School in Carlisle (Pennsylvania), before returning again in the Indian Territory, where they founded the Nuyaka mission. Besides, she was again working as a teacher in Okmulgee. From a girls' school for Indians, where they taught also, later emerged on the Henry Kendall College today University of Tulsa.

Between 1900 and 1905, Robertson was the first school superintendent in the Indian territory of their homeland and from 1905 to 1913 she was postmistress in Muskogee. Your experience of the troops, during the First World War, later led to the founding of the local branch of the Red Cross in Muskogee.

Alice Robertson was a member of the Republican Party. In 1920, she managed the first woman ever, a sitting congressman - in this case, William W. Hastings of the Democratic Party - to beat and take his place in the U.S. House of Representatives. Between 4 March 1921 and 3 March 1923, she was able to complete a term in Congress, before its predecessor Hastings defeated in the elections of 1922. Robertson was after Jeannette Rankin of Montana, who had completed his term in Congress 1917-1919, only the second woman in this body at all. Amazingly, she was opposed to the women's rights movement. She was also opposed to legislative proposals to improve the maternity leave and child care. This earned her the support of the conservative society of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

After the end of their time in Congress Alice Robertson was employed in the social service of a Veterans Hospital in Muskogee in 1923. Then they ran a milk -producing farm. She died in 1931 and was buried in Muskogee.