| 词条 | Iris Faircloth Blitch |
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| name = Iris Faircloth Blitch | image = Iris Faircloth Blitch.jpg | imagesize = 300x250px | birth_date={{birth date|1912|04|25|mf=y}} | birth_place=Toombs County, Georgia | state1 = Georgia | district1 = 8th | term1=January 3, 1955 – January 3, 1963 | preceded1=William McDonald Wheeler | succeeded1=James Russell Tuten | party=Democratic; Republican | death_date={{death date and age |1993|08|19|1912|04|25}} | death_place=San Diego, California }}Iris Faircloth Blitch (April 25, 1912 – August 19, 1993) was a United States Representative from Georgia. She was the fourth woman to represent Georgia in the Congress,[1] and the first to win a regularly scheduled general election.[1]{{efn-la|Rebecca Latimer Felton was appointed in 1922 and became the first woman to ever serve in the United States Senate. Florence Reville Gibbs won a 1940 special election to succeed her deceased husband in the House of Representatives. Helen Douglas Mankin won a special election to a House seat in 1946.}} Blitch was a vocal advocate both for women's rights and against racial desegregation.[2] Early lifeBlitch was born near Vidalia, Georgia and attended the University of Georgia (UGA) in Athens in 1929. She also attended South Georgia College in Douglas in 1949.[2] Blitch worked with her husband in managing their farm as well as cattle, timber, naval stores, fertilizer, and pharmacy businesses in Homerville, Georgia. Political careerIn 1946, Blitch was elected to the Georgia Senate; she was subsequently elected to the Georgia House of Representatives in 1948 but lost her reelection bid to that office in 1950.[3] She won election to the state Senate again in 1952 and remained in that position through December 31, 1954.[3] From 1948 through 1954, Blitch was Georgia's Democratic Party national committee member. Running a successful campaign for Georgia's 8th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives as a Democrat, Blitch served in the 84th United States Congress. A staunch segregationist, in 1956, Blitch was among the 101 Southern politicians to sign the Southern Manifesto.[4] She won re-election to three additional terms in that seat before choosing not to seek reelection in 1962 due to severe arthritis.[5] In 1964, Mrs. Blitch left the Democratic Party and endorsed Republican presidential nominee Barry Goldwater. Within days of her 1954 election, Blitch appeared on the American television show What's My Line. After her political service, Blitch resided on St. Simons Island, Georgia, until 1988, when she moved to San Diego, California, to be closer to her daughter. She died there on August 19, 1993, and was buried in Pine Forest Cemetery in Homerville, Georgia.[5][6] See also
Note1. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/21/us/politics/fact-check-is-karen-handel-georgias-first-female-representative.html|title=Fact Check: Is Karen Handel Georgia’s First Female Representative?|last=Qiu|first=Linda|access-date=2018-07-03|language=en}} 2. ^1 {{Cite web|url=http://history.house.gov/People/Detail/9501|title=BLITCH, Iris Faircloth|last=|first=|date=|website=History, Art & Archives, U.S. House of Representatives|publisher=|access-date=January 19, 2017}} 3. ^1 {{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Wz9OB2xLGecC&pg=PA347&dq=iris+faircloth+blitch&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjq6uGWgM_RAhVj7YMKHTl2CJIQ6AEILzAC#v=onepage&q=iris%20faircloth%20blitch&f=false|title=Women in Congress, 1917-2006|last=Wasniewski|first=Matthew Andrew|date=2006-01-01|publisher=Government Printing Office|isbn=9780160767531|language=en}} 4. ^1 {{Cite news|url=http://articles.latimes.com/1993-08-21/news/mn-25874_1_iris-faircloth-blitch|title=Iris Faircloth Blitch; Former Congresswoman|last=|first=|date=August 21, 1993|work=L.A. Times|access-date=January 19, 2017|via=Google}} 5. ^1 {{cite web|title=Blitch, Iris Faircloth|url=http://history.house.gov/People/Detail/9501|website=History, Art & Archives|publisher=United States House of Representatives|accessdate=23 February 2018}} 6. ^{{cite web|title=Iris Eloise Faircloth Blitch|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7826276/iris-eloise-blitch|website=Find A Grave|accessdate=23 February 2018}} References{{Reflist}}{{CongBio|B000561}}
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