Ruth Bryan Owen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetRuth Bryan Owen
American politician
Date of Birth: 02-Oct-1885
Place of Birth: Jacksonville, Illinois, United States
Date of Death: 26-Jul-1954
Profession: politician, nurse, diplomat
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Libra 
About Ruth Bryan Owen
- Ruth Baird Bryan Leavitt Owen Rohde, also known as Ruth Bryan Owen, (October 2, 1885 – July 26, 1954) was a politician and the first woman appointed as a United States ambassador.
- The daughter of attorneys William Jennings Bryan and Mary E.
- Baird, she was a Democrat, who in 1929 was elected as Florida's (and the South's) first female US Representative, coming from Florida's 4th district.
- Representative Owen was also the first woman to earn a seat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee.In 1933, she became the first woman to be appointed as a U.S.
- ambassador, when President Franklin D.
- Roosevelt selected her as Ambassador to Denmark and Iceland.
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