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Magazine article (detail), 1933, Collection of U.S. House of Representatives |
GREENWAY, Isabella Selmes, (later Mrs. Harry Orland King),
a Representative from Arizona; born Isabella Selmes in Boone County,
Ky., March 22, 1886; attended the public schools and Miss Chapins School, in
New York City; homesteaded near Tyrone, N.Mex., in 1910; served as chairman of
the Womens Land Army of New Mexico in 1918; moved to Tucson, Ariz., in 1923;
Democratic National committeewoman from Arizona; owner and operator of a cattle
ranch; owner of Gilpin Air Lines, Los Angeles, Calif., 1929-1934; in 1929
established the Arizona Inn (a hotel resort) in Tucson; elected as a Democrat
to the Seventy-third Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of
Lewis W. Douglas; reelected to the Seventy-fourth Congress and served from
October 3, 1933, to January 3, 1937; was not a candidate for renomination in
1936; member of the Mount Rushmore National Memorial Commission; retired from
political activities; died in Tucson, Ariz., December 18, 1953; interment in
the family cemetery on the Selmes farm in Boone County, Ky., twenty miles from
Covington, Ky.
BibliographyMiller, Kristie.
Isabella Greenway: An Enterprising Woman. Tucson, Ariz: The
University of Arizona Press, 2004.
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