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Ruth Bryan Owen | |
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| United States Ambassador to Denmark | |
| In office May 29, 1933 – June 27, 1936 | |
| President | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| Preceded by | Frederick W. B. Coleman |
| Succeeded by | Alvin M. Owsley |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Florida's 4th district | |
| In office March 4, 1929 – March 3, 1933 | |
| Preceded by | William J. Sears |
| Succeeded by | J. Mark Wilcox |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Ruth Baird Bryan October 2, 1885 Jacksonville, Illinois, U.S. |
| Died | July 26, 1954 (aged 68) Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Resting place | Ordrup Cemetery, Copenhagen |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouses | Reginald Altham Owen
(m. 1910; died 1928)Børge Rohde (m. 1936) |
| Parent(s) | William Jennings Bryan Mary E. Baird |
| Profession | Politician, diplomat, author |
Ruth Baird Leavitt Owen Rohde (née Bryan; October 2, 1885 – July 26, 1954), also known as Ruth Bryan Owen, was an American politician and diplomat who represented Florida's 4th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1929 to 1933 and served as United States Envoy to Denmark from 1933 to 1936. She was the first woman elected to Congress from Florida and just the second woman ever elected to the House from the American South, after Alice Mary Robertson of Oklahoma.[1] Owen became the first woman to earn a seat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.[2] A member of the Democratic Party, she was the first female chief of mission at the minister rank in U.S. diplomatic history under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.[3][4]
- ^ "Florida Memory • in Her Own Words: Remarkable Women in 20th-Century Florida".
- ^ Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives. "Office of the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives – 404". house.gov.
- ^ "Women in Diplomacy". state.gov. U.S. Department of State. Archived from the original on October 25, 2020.
- ^ Vickers, Sarah Pauline. The Life of Ruth Bryan Owen: Florida's First Congresswoman and America's First Woman Diplomat. Ph.D. dissertation, Florida State University, (1994)