Margaret Chase Smith facts for kids
Margaret Chase Smith (14 December 1897 — 29 May 1995) was an American politician. She was a member of the House of Representatives from 1940 to 1949, and a United States Senator from 1949 to 1973. She was from the Republican Party. She was the first female to be in both houses of the United States Congress.
Chase was born in Maine. She died after a stroke at age 97.
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Smith and Eleanor Roosevelt jointly appear as the first-ever women panelists on Face the Nation in 1956.

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