Photograph, Hattie Caraway

 
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Photograph, Hattie Caraway
Photograph, Hattie Caraway
Photograph, Hattie Caraway
Photograph, Hattie Caraway

Photograph, Hattie Caraway

Object number2015.028.11
DateSeptember 4, 1938
MediumPaper, Ink
Dimensions9 × 7 1/4 in. (22.9 × 18.4 cm)
Credit LineOld State House Museum Collection
Terms
  • Print, Photographic
DescriptionA black and white photograph of Hattie Caraway. This photograph was taken on September 4, 1938, while Caraway was working as a United States Senator. Caraway is seated in a chair, wearing a silver necklace with a large pendant, and is holding a pair of eyeglasses. It is a Wide World photograph.

Hattie Ophelia Wyatt Caraway was born on February 1, 1878 near Bakersville, Tennessee. Caraway married Thaddeus “Thad” Horatius Caraway of Clay County, Arkansas on February 5, 1902. Caraway focused on raising their three children while her husband began his political career in the United States House of Representatives. When Thad unexpectedly passed away in 1931, Caraway was appointed to fill his vacancy and served until 1945. She is most widely known for her work for the Equal Nationality Treaty of 1934 and the Equal Rights Amendment. Caraway died in January 1950 after suffering a stroke.
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