Helen Gahagan Douglas (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Helen Gahagan (November 25, 1900 - June 28, 1980) was an American actress and (under the name Helen Gahagan Douglas) politician. She was the third woman and first Democratic woman elected to Congress from California; her election made California one of the first two states (the other was Illinois) to have elected female members of the House from both parties.