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Mary Louise Smith (politician)

Mary Louise Smith (October 6, 1914 – August 22, 1997), a U.S. political organizer and women's rights activist, was the second woman to become chair of a major political party in the United States (the first was Jean Westwood).

Mary Louise Smith

George H. W. Bush

Bill Brock

Mary Louise Epperson

(1914-10-06)October 6, 1914
Eddyville, Iowa, U.S.

August 22, 1997(1997-08-22) (aged 82)
Des Moines, Iowa, U.S.

Republican

University of Iowa (BA)

O'Dea, Suzanne. Madame Chairman: Mary Louise Smith and the Republican Revival After Watergate (University of Missouri Press; 2012) 216 pages; scholarly biography

ISU Mary Louise Smith Chair in Women and Politics

at the Iowa Women's Archives, University of Iowa

Mary Louise Smith Papers

on C-SPAN

Appearances