112th Congress, 2nd Session
March 27, 1880
On this date, Ruth Hanna McCormick of Illinois was born in Cleveland, Ohio.
April 15, 1929
On this date, Ruth Hanna McCormick of Illinois and Ruth Bryan Owen of Florida were sworn in with the other Members of the 71st Congress (1929–1931), for an extraordinary session called by President Herbert Hoover to address farm relief and tariff revision.
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