"New Hampshire Congresswoman" Ruth Hamilton Signed Note Page Todd Mueller COA

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Up for auction "New Hampshire Congresswoman" Ruth Hamilton Signed Note Page.
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Ruth Hamilton
(nee Jensen)) April 21, 1898 – January 18, 2008) was an
American politician
and centenarian. Hamilton served in the
New Hampshire House of Representatives
from 1964 to 1973, and she was one of the first woman
talk radio
show hosts in the country. Hamilton was born in
Alta, Iowa
to Peter and Hulda Jensen on April 21, 1898. At a
Fourth of July
sandlot baseball game in 1920, she met Carter Hamilton. After he was drafted to play professional baseball for the
Cleveland Indians
,
the two got married a year later. Together they had an adopted son named Peter.
Carter Hamilton died in 1949, and Ruth would remain a lifelong widow ever since.
First being elected in 1964, Hamilton was the first woman elected to the New Hampshire state legislature; a position she remained in until 1973. She was instrumental in passing laws that shut down
orphanages
and made
littering
a crime in that state.
She was one of America's first female
radio talk-show
hosts.
Hamilton was a world traveler well into her 90s and lectured all across the country. She became a member of
Growing Bolder
, a
social networking service
, while living in a Florida assisted living community.
While sleeping at her home in
Orlando, Florida
, she died at age 109 on January 18, 2008.