Nan Wood Honeyman

Nan Wood Honeyman ( born July 15, 1881 in West Point, New York, † December 10, 1970 in Woodacre, California ) was an American politician. Between 1937 and 1939, she represented the third electoral district of the state of Oregon in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Nan Honeyman was born as Nan Wood. In 1884 she moved with her parents to Portland. There she was educated at private schools. Then she attended until 1898, the St. Helens Hall, a school in Portland, and then completed her training at the Finch School in New York City. In 1908 she married David Honeyman, with whom she had three children. Prior to her political activities, she became involved in various charitable organizations.

Politically, she became a member of the Democratic Party. In 1933, she chaired a meeting that ratified the 21th Amendment to the Constitution for the State of Oregon, which broke down the nationwide Prohibition again. In the years 1936 and 1940 she was delegate to the Democratic National Convention, on each of which incumbent Franklin D. Roosevelt was re- nominated as a presidential candidate. Honeyman was a supporter of the President and his New Deal policies. Between 1935 and 1937 she was a Member of the House of Representatives from Oregon.

In 1936 she was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, where she became the successor of William A. Ekwall on January 3, 1937. She was the first female member of Congress from Oregon at all. In 1938, she succumbed to at the Homer D. Angell elections, the candidate of the Republican Party. So she was able to complete only one term in Congress until January 3, 1939. In 1940, she ran again unsuccessfully for a return to Congress.

Between 1941 and 1942 Honeyman was a member of the Senate of Oregon. At the same time she was a member of the Pacific Coast Office of Price Administration, which controlled the price development during the Second World War. From 1942 to 1953 she directed the customs authorities in Portland. In 1942 her husband was convicted of embezzling over $ 100,000. She herself was not involved in this affair.

Nan Wood Honeyman died in December 1970 in California and was buried in Portland.