1920-1960

• National Government
• 1920
• Mabel Boardman - Comissioner of Washington D.C.
• Helen H. Gardner - US Civil Service Comission
• Estelle V. Collier - Collecter of Customs
• Clara Sears Taylor - Temporary Rent Comission: Washington D.C.
• Note: All of these Women served before the 19th  amendment was passed.
• Congress
• Harriet Taylor Upton*
• 1942 - Clare Booth Luce
• Edith Nourse Rogers*
• 1952 - Katherine St. George
• 1956 - Grace Pfost
• 1962 - Florence Dwyer
• Senate
• 1922 - Rebecca L. Felton (1st to serve in Senate)
• 1931 - Hattie Caraway
• 1936 - Rose Long
• 1947 - Margaret Chase Smith
• 1954 - Eva Bowring
• 1960 - Maurine B. Neuberger
• Other
• Women's Bureau
• Children's Bureau
• Elizabeth Carpenter
• Alice K. Leopold
• Esther Peterson

Margaret Chase Smith (Source: One Room at a time - Gruberg pg. 177)

• Gained her position due to the death of her husband - Clyde H. Smith
• 1st women to serve in both the House of Rep. and the Senate
• Former teacher, newspaperwoman, and businesswoman
• 1930-36: Member of the Republican State Committee
• 1940: Husband falls ill and requests that she be the one to finish his term in the HOR. Mrs. Smith was then reelected 4 times in her own right.
• 1943: Served on the Naval Affairs committee  
• 1947: Ran for Senate and was elected. Reelected again in 1954 and 1960.
• First woman to become an active entrant in a race to win a major party's presidential nomination.
• 1950: One of the most noted early challenges to Joseph R. McCarthy's charges of Communists in government with Declaration of Conscience speech 
• 1952: Campaigned for the Vice-Presidency 
• 1963: Rated in a gallop poll as one of the top 4 most admired women in the world

Harriet Taylor Upton

• First women to serve on the Republican National Executive Committee
• 1928: Led Republican campaigns as an assistant campaign manager

Hattie Caraway
     

• Appointed to her late husband's seat in the senate in 1931, and confirmed in a special election in 1932, making her the first woman to be elected to senate. She was  reelected in 1932 and 1938. 
• Served on the committee on Enrolled Bills (Seventy-third through Seventy-eighth Congresses) 
• 1945-1946: Member of the United States Employees’ Compensation Commission
• 1946: Member of the Employees’ Compensation Appeals Board