Pearl Peden Oldfield

Pearl Peden Oldfield ( born December 2, 1876 in Cotton Plant, Woodruff County, Arkansas, † April 12, 1962 in Washington DC) was an American politician. Between 1929 and 1931, she represented the second electoral district of the state of Arkansas in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Pearl Peden attended the public schools of their home and the Arkansas College in Batesville. She married the longtime congressman William Allan Oldfield. After her husband's death, she was elected in a by-election in the second district of Arkansas as a candidate of the Democratic Party to its successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington.

This made her the first woman from Arkansas who was elected to Congress. There they remained from 9 January 1929 to 3 March 1931. Choosing a family for a successor is elected in the United States, not the rule, but, during the course of the history of the Congress before more often. After the end of their time in Congress to Oldfield pulled back from politics and devoted himself to their private interests.

Batesville (Arkansas) Arkansas Territory James Woodson Bates Henry Wharton Conway Ambrose Hundley Sevier Archibald Yell Edward Cross (politician) Thomas Willoughby Newton Robert Ward Johnson Alfred B. Greenwood Thomas C. Hindman Logan H. Roots James M. Hanks Asa Hodges Lucien C. Gause Poindexter Dunn William H. Cate Lewis P. Featherstone Philip D. McCulloch, Jr. Robert B. Macon Thaddeus H. Caraway William J. Driver Ezekiel C. Gathings William Vollie Alexander, Jr. Robert Marion Berry Rick Crawford (politician) Albert Rust James M. Hinds James T. Elliott Oliver P. Snyder James Kimbrough Jones Clifton R. Breckinridge John Sebastian Little Stephen Brundidge, Jr. John E. Miller Ed Bethune Tommy F. Robinson Vic Snyder Tim Griffin Thomas Boles John Edwards (Arkansas) William W. Wilshire Thomas M. Gunter Jordan E. Cravens John H. Rogers (Arkansas politician) Thomas Chipman McRae Hugh A. Dinsmore John C. Floyd John N. Tillman Claude A. Fuller Clyde T. Ellis J. William Fulbright John Paul Hammerschmidt Tim Hutchinson Asa Hutchinson Steve Womack William Joseph Hynes Samuel W. Peel William L. Terry Charles C. Reid William B. Cravens Effiegene Locke Wingo William Fadjo Cravens Boyd Anderson Tackett Oren Harris Beryl Anthony, Jr. Jay Dickey Tom Cotton Henderson M. Jacoway Heartsill Ragon David D. Terry Dale Alford Robert Neill (American politician) Joseph Taylor Robinson Samuel M. Taylor Chester W. Taylor Lewis E. Sawyer James B. Reed David Delano Glover William F. Norrell Catherine Dorris Norrell Robert M. Wallace William S. Goodwin Tilman Bacon Parks

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