| 词条 | Doris Lindsey Holland Rhodes |
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| name=Doris Lindsey Holland Rhodes | office=Louisiana State Senator for St. Helena and Tangipahoa parishes | party=Democratic Party | term_start=1936 | term_end=1940 | preceded=Thomas Myers Holland | succeeded=W. G. Jones |office2=Louisiana State Representative for St. Helena Parish | term_start2=1940 | term_end2=1948 | preceded2=W. C. Alford | succeeded2=Guy B. McDonald | birth_date={{birth date|1909|12|12}} | birth_place=Greensburg St. Helena Parish Louisiana, USA | residence=Greensburg, Louisiana | death_date={{death date and age|1997|5|30|1909|12|12}} | death_place= | resting_place=Greensburg Cemetery | religion=United Methodist | alma_mater= | occupation=Newspaper publisher Insurance agent |spouse=(1) Thomas Myers Holland (died 1936) (2) James Harrell Rhodes (died 1968) | children=Philip and Dorothy Jane Holland | footnotes= }} Doris Lindsey Holland Rhodes (December 12, 1909 – May 30, 1997) was the first woman ever to serve as a member of the Louisiana State Legislature. BackgroundDoris N. Lindsey was born in Greensburg, the seat of government of St. Helena Parish, one of the Florida Parishes of southeastern Louisiana. The daughter of Hollis Womack Lindsey (1873-1955) and the former Minerva Thompson (1878-1959),[1] she lived nearly all of her life in Greensburg, located south of the border with Mississippi and some fifty miles northeast of the state capital of Baton Rouge.[2] Her first husband, Thomas Myers Holland (1900-1936),[1] a member of the Louisiana State Senate from St. Helena and neighboring Tangipahoa Parish, died in March 1936, leaving her as a 27-year-old widow with two children, Philip and Dorothy Jane.[3] Political lifeIn May 1936, the governor of Louisiana appointed Mrs. Holland to replace her husband as a state senator.[4] She won a special election to complete his term, which extended until 1940.[2][5] She did not seek a second term in the Senate but instead ran for and was elected and served two terms in the Louisiana House of Representatives from St. Helena Parish.[6] A woman did not again serve in the state Senate until 1976, when Virginia Shehee of Shreveport began a single term of service in the body. Shehee, also an insurance businesswoman, was the first Louisiana state senator who did not succeed a husband in the position.[7] Upon leaving politics in 1948, Holland edited and published the family-owned newspaper, the St. Helena Echo, and worked as an insurance agent. She retired in 1968, when she married bank president and department store owner James Harrell Rhodes of Zachary in East Baton Rouge Parish. Apparently the two were married for only a short time, as Rhodes died on June 12, 1968.[8] After Rhodes' death, she remained active in civic matters and the United Methodist Church.[2] Holland was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution.[3] Her Senate and House colleagues subsequently named her to the alumni board of the legislature; Governor Edwin W. Edwards honored her at the 1992 Governor's Conference on Women. A Democrat, she was inducted in 1994 as a charter member of the Louisiana Center for Women and Government Hall of Fame at Nicholls State University in Thibodaux.[2] In 2004, she was posthumously inducted into the Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame in Winnfield. Inducted along with Holland Rhodes was later female state Senator Virginia Shehee.[9] Holland died in the spring of 1997 at the age of eighty-seven. Along with her first husband and her parents, she is interred at Greensburg Cemetery.[3] {{Portalbar|Biography|Louisiana|Politics|Journalism|Christianity}}References1. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://files.usgwarchives.net/la/sthelena/cemeteries/grnbrg.txt|title=St. Helena Cemetery|publisher=usgwarchives.net|accessdate=October 23, 2013}} {{s-start}}{{s-off}}{{succession box2. ^1 2 3 {{cite web|url=http://www.nwhm.org/online-exhibits/legislators/Louisiana.html|title=Louisiana: Doris Lindsey Holland Rhodes (1909-1997)|publisher=nwhm.org|accessdate=October 23, 2013}} 3. ^1 2 {{cite web|url=http://files.usgwarchives.net/la/sthelena/bios/rhodesdl.txt|title=Doris Lindsey Holland Rhodes|publisher=St. Helena Historical Association Quarterly, Spring 1998, Issue 55|accessdate=October 23, 2013}} 4. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.dailyworld.com/article/20130305/OPINION/303050312/Decline-number-women-office-causes-concern|title=Decline in number of women in office causes concern, March 5, 2013|publisher=Opelousas Daily World|accessdate=October 23, 2013|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://archive.is/20131024051220/http://www.dailyworld.com/article/20130305/OPINION/303050312/Decline-number-women-office-causes-concern|archivedate=October 24, 2013|df=}} 5. ^{{cite web|url=http://senate.la.gov/Documents/Membership/Documents/SenateMembership1880ForwardRevisedMar2011.pdf|title=Membership in the Louisiana State Senate, 1880-Forward|publisher=senate.la.gov|accessdate=October 23, 2013}} 6. ^{{cite web|url=http://house.louisiana.gov/H_PDFdocs/HouseMembership_History_CURRENT.pdf |title=Membership in the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1812-2016 |publisher=house.louisiana.gov |accessdate=October 23, 2013 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006105414/http://house.louisiana.gov/H_PDFdocs/HouseMembership_History_CURRENT.pdf |archivedate=October 6, 2014 |df= }} 7. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.thepineywoods.com/HallFame04.htm|title=James Ronald Skains, Political Hall of Fame induction in Winnfield will honor eight, January 2004|publisher=The Piney Woods|accessdate=October 19, 2013}} 8. ^{{cite web|url= https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10437960 |title=James Harrell Rhodes|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=October 23, 2013}} 9. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.lapoliticalmuseum.com/inductees.php?viewID=38|title=Doris Lindsey Holland (Rhodes)|publisher=lapolitical museum.com|accessdate=October 23, 2013}} |before=Thomas Myers Holland |title=Louisiana State Senator for St. Helena and Tangipahoa parishes Doris Lindsey Holland Rhodes |years=1936–1940 |after=W. G. Jones}}{{succession box |before=W. C. Alford |title=Louisiana State Representative for St. Helena Parish Doris Lindsey Holland Rhodes |years=1940—1948 |after=Guy B. McDonald}}{{s-end}}{{Louisiana Center for Women in Government and Business Hall of Fame}}{{Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame}}{{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Rhodes, Doris Lindsey Holland}} 13 : 1909 births|1997 deaths|Journalists from Louisiana|American insurance businesspeople|Louisiana state senators|Members of the Louisiana House of Representatives|Women state legislators in Louisiana|Louisiana Democrats|20th-century American non-fiction writers|20th-century American politicians|People from Greensburg, Louisiana|American United Methodists|20th-century Methodists |
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