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Famous Junior League Members
| Member | Position and Community Service | Junior League | | Mary Harriman Rumsey | Founder
of the Junior League--1901; First defender of consumer rights as Chair
of the Consumers' Advisory Board of the National Resource
Administration in President Franklin Roosevelt's Administration, 1933 | The City of New York | | Eleanor Roosevelt | First
Lady; social reformer; humanitarian; author. As U.S. Delegate to the
United Nations, she chaired the Human Rights Commission during the
drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights--adopted 1948 | The City of New York | | Oveta Culp Hobby | First Commander of Women's Army Corps 1941; First U.S. Secretary of Health, Education & Welfare 1953 | Houston, TX | | Sandra Day O'Connor | First female U.S. Supreme Court Justice, appointed 1981 | Phoenix, AZ | | Barbara Bush | First Lady; literacy activist | Houston, TX | | Laura Bush | First Lady; literacy activist | Austin, TX | | Betty Ford | First Lady; substance abuse prevention activist | Grand Rapids, MI | | Nancy Reagan | First Lady; substance abuse prevention activist | Los Angeles, CA | | Eudora Welty | Author; Pulitzer prize for The Optimist's Daughter, 1972 | Jackson, MS | | Shirley Temple Black | Child actress; Delegate to the United Nations (1969); U.S. Ambassador to Ghana; Czech and Slovak Republics | Palo Alto, CA | | Katharine Hepburn | Actress; women's issues activist | Hartford, CT | | Sarah Palfrey Cook Danzig | Tennis champion; two-time Wimbledon champion | The City of New York | | | | | | Elected to Gov't | U.S. House of Representatives | Junior League | | Ruth Baker Sears Pratt | Served 1929-1933; first woman elected by NY | The City of New York | | Isabella Selmes Greenway | Served 1934-1937 | The City of New York | | Frances Payne Bolton | Served 1940-1969 | Cleveland, OH | | Mary E. Pruett Farrington | Served 1954-1957 | Honolulu, HI | | Lynn Martin | Served 1981-1985; U.S. Secretary of Labor 1991-1993 | Rockford, IL | | Tillie Fowler | 1993-2001 | Jacksonville, FL | | Jennifer Dunn | 1993-2005 | Seattle, WA | | Anna Eshoo | 1993-present | Palo Alto, CA | | Carolyn Maloney | 1993-present | The City of New York | | Judy Biggert | 1998-present | Chicago, IL | | | | | | Elected to Gov't | U.S. Senate | Junior League | | Margaret Chase Smith | First woman elected to the Senate | Bangor, ME | | Kay Hagan | 2009-present | Greensboro, NC | | | | | | Elected to Gov't | Canadian Parliament | Junior League | | Margaret McTavish Konantz | Member, Canadian Parliament, 1963-1968 | Winnipeg, MB | | Florence Bird | Member, Canadian Parliament, 1978-1983 | Winnipeg, MB | | Bobbie Sparrow | Member, Canadian Parliament, 1984-1988 | Calgary, AB |
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