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Related Stories. The 25 Defining Works of the Black Renaissance. Already a print subscriber? Go here to link your subscription. Need help? Visit our Help Center. For most of the campaign, Nellie refused to ask people to vote for her just on the basis of her gender.

Her supporters were happy to do so, though, and prominent Republican women counterattacked in the press. Nellie fell back on what she did best. She made speeches. She toured the state in a big Packard car driven by her friend Wilson Kimball, who was running for secretary of state. Republicans and Democrats alike were curious to see the lady governor. Her schedule was jam-packed, and she drew big crowds wherever she went. Cecilia Hendricks, a homesteader from Garland, Wyo.

You know. Finally, Nellie did play the gender card. The month before the election she said in a speech that if she lost, the whole country would say that the first woman governor was a failure. She lost. The Republicans took all five of the top elected state offices.

She lost by only 1, out of about 70, votes cast. The following year, she traveled widely and made good money giving speeches throughout the West and Midwest. Nellie, now one of the most famous Democrats and one of the most famous women in the nation, campaigned extensively for him although she disagreed with him on prohibition.

She moved to Washington D. After Roosevelt took office as president in , he named Nellie director of the Bureau of the Mint, the government agency responsible for making new bills, new coins and melting down old ones. It was a big job, and Nellie was the first woman to hold it. Over the years, and thanks in part to her political experience first in Wyoming and then in national Democratic politics, Nellie became an excellent manager—humane and effective. Managing the U. Mint was her true political career.

Roosevelt appointed her to three five-year stints in the job, and President Harry Truman, also a Democrat, appointed her to a fourth. Nellie retired in She stayed in Washington. She made many smart real estate investments over the years and was finally rich, as she had always wanted to be. She had time for travel now and time for her children and grandchildren. Similarly, more recent historians have criticized the women's suffrage movement as having not gone far enough—as having settled for the vote alone instead of stepping further, and obtaining real political power.

It would be two more generations, many historians believe, before women began organizing for real power beyond the ballot. She cared about her family, but she also cared deeply about getting things done in the public sphere—that is, about politics.

She was born during the presidency of Ulysses S. Grant and died in , at the age of , during the presidency of Jimmy Carter. She followed her ambition, saw her opportunities, took up the power available to her, and used it.

Click here to see Nellie Tayloe Ross speak to the public from her desk at the U. Mint, shortly after she was appointed director of the Mint by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in With thanks to the American Heritage Center.

A Web page packed with information and useful links. Great effort has been made to restore original furniture and use historically accurate reproductions of wallpaper, drapes and carpet used in the historic residence. The site is partially handicapped accessible, with a ramp located on the west side of the mansion.

The first floor is fully accessible. A video tour is available on the website linked below. Admission is free, but hours change seasonally. Skip to main content. Home Encyclopedia. The Ambition of Nellie Tayloe Ross. Tom Rea. Early life Nellie Tayloe Ross was a southern woman, and like many southern women she was gracious, funny and strongly loyal to her family and friends.

The first woman governor She was inaugurated Jan. A second campaign Nellie ran again in Hendricks, Cecilia Hennel. Compiled by Cecilia Hendricks Wahl. Boulder, Colo. Hendricks and her husband began farming near Garland, east of Powell, Wyo.

These letters to her Indiana relatives are packed with details of farm, family and politics. Hendricks was active in Wyoming's Democratic Party and ran unsuccessfully for state superintendent of public instruction in Her letter about Gov. Ross in the campaign is on p. American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming. Larson, T. History of Wyoming. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, , Scharff, Virginia.

Scheer, Teva. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, Van Pelt, Lori. Winter , She attended a teacher-training college for two years and taught kindergarten for several years. Her husband, William B. Ross, was governor of Wyoming from until his death on October 2, She succeeded him as governor when she won the special election. She lost re-election in but remained an active member of the Democratic Party. Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica.

In Britannica. National Governors Association. Nellie Tayloe Ross. Wyoming State Archives. Nellie Ross. In , Ross became director of the U. She served five terms, retiring in



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