Sen. Hattie Caraway Blazed an Unexpected Trail in U.S. Politics
Hattie Wyatt Caraway served for 14 years in the U.S. Senate and established a number of firsts. She was the first woman elected to serve a full term as a United States senator, the first woman to chair a Senate committee in 1933, and the first woman to preside officially over the Senate in 1943…