Margaret Chase Smith
Margaret Madeline Chase Smith 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 United States Congress, and the first woman to represent Maine in either. A Republican, she was among the first to criticize the tactics of Joseph McCarthy in her 1950 speech, "Declaration of Conscience".
14 December 1897
Born on the same birth date (14 December 1897): Kurt Schuschnigg
Born on the same birth day (14 December): Ben Henry • Jerzy Iwanow-Szajnowicz • John Brown (basketball, born 1951) • John Lurie • René Eespere • Shyam Benegal • Tim Skold • Vanessa Hudgens
Born in the same month (December 1897): Albert Aalbers • Alfredo Bracchi • Drew Pearson (journalist) • Fletcher Henderson • Gershom Scholem • Hermione Gingold • Ivan Bagramyan • Kurt Schuschnigg • Nunnally Johnson • Rewi Alley • Robert Redfield • Ronald Skirth • Ville Pörhölä • Väinö Sipilä • William Gropper