Margaret Chase Smith
Sign in to saveAlso known as Margaret Madeline Chase Smith, Margaret Smith
member of the United States Senate from Maine (1897-1995)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1897
- Works
- 4
Top works
- Amending the Naval reserve act of 1938, as amended ...
- Reorganizing plan no. 2 of 1953
- Interview with Margaret Chase Smith, U.S. Senator
- Gallant women
- A declaration of conscience
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 18
- Total plays
- 45
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Bias in meta-analysis detected by a simple, graphical test
· 1997 · cited 48,614x
- Colorimetric Method for Determination of Sugars and Related Substances
· 1956 · cited 42,283x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,397x
- GROMACS: High performance molecular simulations through multi-level parallelism from laptops to supercomputers
· 2015 · cited 25,268x
- Array programming with NumPy
· 2020 · cited 23,379x
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Quotes
- “My creed is that public service must be more than doing a job efficiently and honestly. It must be a complete dedication to the people and to the nation with full recognition that every human being is entitled to courtesy and consideration, that constructive criticism is not only to be expected but sought, that smears are not only to be expected but fought, that honor is to be earned but not bought.”
- “I am running against no one. I'd like to be President. I think my experience and my record are greater than any other candidate or any other of the unannounced candidates. It's a real challenge, and that's one of the paramount things. When people keep telling you that you can't do a thing, you kind of like to try it.”
- “We should not permit tolerance to degenerate into indifference.”
- “Strength, the American way, is not manifested by threats of criminal prosecution or police state methods. Leadership is not manifested by coercion, even against the resented. Greatness is not manifested by unlimited pragmatism, which places such a high premium on the end justifying any means and any methods.”
- “My basic rule is to speak slowly and simply so that my audience has an opportunity to follow and think about what I am saying.”
- “I speak as briefly as possible because too much harm has already been done with irresponsible words of bitterness and selfish political opportunism. I speak as simply as possible because the issue is too great to be obscured by eloquence. I speak simply and briefly in the hope that my words will be taken to heart. I speak as a Republican. I speak as a woman. I speak as a United States Senator. I speak as an American.”
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Key facts
- Leader
- Everett Dirksen , Hugh Scott
- Preceded by
- Leverett Saltonstall
- Succeeded by
- Norris Cotton
- Born
- Margaret Madeline Chase , ( 1897-12-14 ) December 14, 1897, Skowhegan, Maine , U.S.
- Died
- May 29, 1995 (1995-05-29) (aged 97), Skowhegan, Maine, U.S.
- Party
- Republican
- Spouse
- Clyde H. Smith ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1930 ; died 1940 )
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Margaret
- Family name
- Chase
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Skowhegan
- Place of death
- Skowhegan
- Spouse
- Clyde H. Smith
- Occupation
- business executive
- Position held
- United States senator
- Political party
- Republican Party (United States)
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Award
- Time 100
- Field of work
- mass media
- Military branch
- Air Force Reserve Command
- Military rank
- lieutenant colonel
- Image
- Margaret Chase Smith.jpg
- Work location
- Washington, D.C.
Show 9 more facts
- cause of death
- lung cancer
- Commons category
- Margaret Chase Smith
- manner of death
- natural causes
- date of birth
- 1897-12-14
- date of death
- 1995-05-29
- member of
- Daughters of the American Revolution
- name in native language
- Margaret Chase Smith
- writing language
- English language
- birth name
- Margaret Madeline Chase
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Encyclopedic overview
Margaret Madeline Chase Smith (née Chase; December 14, 1897 – May 29, 1995) was an American politician. A member of the Republican Party, she served as a U.S. representative (1940–1949) and a U.S. senator (1949–1973) from Maine. She was the first woman to serve in both houses of the U.S. Congress. A Republican, she was among the first to criticize the tactics of Joseph McCarthy in her 1950 speech "Declaration of Conscience".
Smith was a candidate in the 1964 Republican Party presidential primaries; she was the first woman to be placed in nomination for the U.S. presidency at a major party's convention. Upon leaving office, she was the longest-serving female senator in history, a distinction that was not surpassed until January 4, 2011, when Senator Barbara Mikulski from Maryland exceeded her record. Smith was ranked as the longest-serving Republican woman in the Senate, a distinction that was not surpassed until January 3, 2021, when Susan Collins, who holds the same Senate seat she previously held, was sworn in for a fifth term.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Margaret Chase Smith” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.