Joan Marie Anderson served as Vice President for Political Action of the San Francisco chapter of the Young Republicans (1969-1970). During those years, she photographed and described the political action activities, including meetings and events, of the San Francisco Young Republicans. The Young Republicans officially organized in 1931 as the Young Republican National Federation under the leadership of George H. Olmsted.These two photograph albums date from late 1969 through 1970 and document meetings, events, and social activities of the San Francisco chapter of the Young Republicans.

Ambassador and breast cancer advocate Nancy Goodman Brinker attended Peoria High School and the University of Illinois (B.A., 1968), where she was a member of the Alpha Epsilon Phi sorority. Brinker's older sister Susan Goodman Komen died of breast cancer at age 36 in 1980. In 1982, Brinker established the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, a nonprofit organization to raise money for breast cancer research. serving as CEO of Komen from 2009 to 2013. Brinker herself survived breast cancer in the early 1980s. Her memoir, Promise Me: How a Sister's Love Launched the Global Movement to End Breast Cancer, was published in 2010. In 2018, Brinker founded the Promise Fund of Florida with Julie Fisher Cummings and Laurie Silvers, to raise money for breast cancer prevention and diagnosis specifically in South Florida. Brinker was an early donor to the Presidential campaign of fellow Texan George W. Bush. President Bush nominated Brinker to be the United States Ambassador to Hungary; she served in that capacity from 2001 to 2003. Brinker also served as Chief of Protocol of the United States from 2007 to January 2009. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009. Since 2009, Brinker has been the World Health Organization's Goodwill Ambassador for Cancer Control.

A native of Dayton, Ohio, Katharine Kennedy Brown was active in Republican Party politics in Ohio beginning in 1920, when she helped found the first Women's Republican Club in her county. She was State Central Committeewoman, 3rd Ohio District (1928-1936), and Republican National Committeewoman for Ohio for over twenty years. She was also active in civic and philanthropic associations, including the Junior League, and fresh-air and day nursery programs.

With a long career in higher education, Chambers was a teacher, civic leader, and official in government and nonprofit organizations. She was a lifelong advocate for women's rights and a national spokesperson for the adoption of the Equal Rights Amendment. She served on the National Advisory Council on Women's Educational Programs from 1976 to 1980, and on the President's Advisory Committee for Women from 1978 to 1980. In 1982 she became the first Republican woman to run (unsuccessfully) for Congress from New Mexico; she followed this with an unsuccessful run for Lieutenant Governor in 1986. She was elected to the Los Alamos County Council in 1975, serving as its chair in 1976 and instituting use of the word "councilor" rather than "councilman." She also served as chair of the Los Alamos County Personnel Board from 1984 to 1990.

Chennault was an author, lecturer, business consultant, and citizen-diplomat. Her papers document her years as a vice president of the Flying Tiger Line, president of TAC International, consultant to various aviation companies and other businesses, and active member of the Republican Party.

Roberta Church (B.A. and M.A., Northwestern University) of Memphis, Tenn., was a social worker in Chicago. In 1953 she was appointed Minority Groups Consultant in the Bureau of Employment Security of the U.S. Dept. of Labor. In 1961 she became consultant on the rehabilitation of older handicapped persons to the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation of the Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare. Church also served on the National Advisory Council on Adult Education (1970-1972) and was the first Black woman elected to the Republican State Executive Committee of Tennessee.

A speaker, hostess, and columnist, Cooper was the wife of John Sherman Cooper, Republican Senator from Kentucky (1946-1948, 1952-1955, 1957-1973), ambassador to India and Nepal (1955-1956), and first official U.S. representative to the German Democratic Republic (1974-1976). For many years, Lorraine Cooper wrote a Washington newsletter for Kentucky newspapers, reporting to her husband's constituents on social and cultural events in Washington. She served on the boards of The Asia Foundation (San Francisco), The Asia Society (New York), and the Frontier Nursing Service in Kentucky.

Born in Chicago, Pauline Joy Morton became interested in politics while visiting Washington, D.C., at the age of 16. In 1920 she was elected to the New York Republican Women's State Committee and rose rapidly in the party ranks. She founded the Women's National Republican Club and was the first woman appointed to the Republican National Committee. After originally supporting the prohibition movement, she changed her position in 1928, resigned from the Republican Party offices, and helped found the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform. She supported Franklin D. Roosevelt but became disenchanted with the New Deal and returned to the Republican Party in 1936.

Howard was active in the Republican Party as secretary of the National Committee (1948-1952), as a staff member for Dwight Eisenhower during his 1952 campaign, and as a volunteer worker for the Nixon-Lodge ticket in Massachusetts during 1960. She was assistant administrator and then deputy administrator of the Federal Civil Defense Administration, a member of the Committee for Civil Defense of NATO, and U.S. Deputy Commissioner of the Brussels World's Fair during 1957 and 1958.

Howe was a lawyer, government official, consumer affairs advocate, and Republican Party activist. She served as president of the Women's Republican Club and as chair of the Republican Town Committee (both in Brookline, Massachusetts), as well as Republican National Committeewoman for Massachusetts. In 1977, she was a delegate-at-large to the National Women's Conference in Houston, Texas.

The first African American woman to become a licensed pharmacist in Connecticut, Anna Louise James was born in Hartford. She attended local schools and graduated from Arsenal Elementary School (1902) and Saybrook High School (1905). She graduated from the Brooklyn College of Pharmacy in 1908 and returned to Hartford, where she operated her own drug store from 1909 until 1911. She later moved to Old Saybrook, where she continued to operate a pharmacy and became active in Republican Party politics. James was one of the first women in Old Saybrook to register to vote after the passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920.

Jefferson was a surgeon and national spokesperson for the pro-life movement. She became involved in the pro-life movement in 1970. She was a founding member of the Value of Life Committee (VOLCOM) in Massachusetts and subsequently helped formed Massachusetts Citizens for Life (MCFL), which was incorporated in 1973. MCFL's efforts led to the founding of the National Right to Life Committee (NRTLC), an umbrella organization comprising 50 state-run organizations and more than 3000 local chapters. She also served as president of the Right to Life Crusade, Inc., which she founded in 1978. She advised and influenced local, state, and national candidates on pro-life issues, and actively campaigned on their behalf. Jefferson received numerous awards and citations for her contributions to the pro-life movement.

Leonard was a life-long champion of the Republican Party, and a great deal of her personal correspondence, especially with family, discusses politics. Despite her political and social conservatism, Leonard championed gender equity and became a tireless advocate of the Equal Right Amendment. Alice Paul, founder of the National Woman's Party, personally requested Leonard's help in collecting and writing the legal history of women's rights (and discrimination against women) at the state level. An enthusiastic admirer of Alice Paul, Leonard devoted decades to researching state laws pertaining to women, including the right to own property and the right to serve on a jury.

In her teens, while still a student at the Hancock School, Levis began her long career of volunteer civic service, interpreting for doctors in the Hull Street Medical Center. Levis was proud of her early advocacy (1910) of woman suffrage, claiming to be the first Italian-American suffragist in Massachusetts. Levis was the first president of the Women's Columbus Republican Club (1943). Politically active from the time she became the "first woman of Italian extraction to register as a Republican," Levis served as a committeewoman from the 7th Suffolk Senatorial District, a member of the Republican State Committee, Vice President of the Republican City Committee, Chairman of Ward 15, and a delegate to Republican state and national conventions. She was an energetic campaigner, and her papers include many letters of gratitude from victorious Republican office-seekers, as well as letters from prominent suffragists.

A Republican active in civic affairs, Lord (Smith, A.B., 1927) was a U.S. representative to the General Assembly of the U.N. and U.S. representative to the Commission on Human Rights (1953-1961). Earlier she had been a volunteer social worker, chairman of the National Advisory Committee on Women's Participation in the World's Fair (1940), Assistant Regional Director of the Office of Civilian Defense (WWII), Chairman of the National Civilian Advisory Committee of the Women's Army Corps, co-chair of Citizens for Eisenhower-Nixon (1952), and organizer and chair of the U.S. Committee for UNICEF (1947). Later she chaired the New York Governor's Committee on the Education and Employment of Women, toured East Asia for the State Dept., and was vice-chair of the Committee for Peace with Freedom in Vietnam.

A reporter for the Associated Press, Nash was based in Chicago for ten years before joining the Washington press corps in 1940. She was one of the first women accredited as a U.S. Army war correspondent, and she served overseas for the AP from January 1943 until May 1945. After retiring from the AP in 1956, she married Bradley D. Nash, U.S. undersecretary of commerce and later mayor of Harper's Ferry, W. Va. Nash worked as a public relations consultant for the Republican National Committee and as a confidential administrative assistant to Bertha Atkins at the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (1958-1961). She was president of the Women's National Press Club (1947-1948) and was a member of the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services (1958-1961). In May 1957 she became a public relations consultant to the Republican National Committee.

The National Women's Political Caucus (NWPC) was formed in 1971 as a multiparty organization seeking to gain an equal voice and place for women in the political process at the local, state, and national levels. The Caucus and its state affiliates support women candidates for elective and appointive offices and seek to ensure that women hold policy-making positions in all political parties. The National Women's Political Caucus has lobbied in state legislatures for the Equal Rights Amendment, women's reproductive rights, and other measures to promote women's equality.

The Center for Oral History and the Women's Studies Program at the University of Connecticut carried on an oral history project (1980-1981), funded by a grant from the Connecticut Humanities Council, on political women in Connecticut. Joyce Pendery and Carole Nichols conducted the interviews with women who had been active in political office and/or community service between 1920 and 1945. The interviews discuss education, family, and political activities.

Priest was born and grew up in Utah and was active in the Republican Party there. In 1953 she was appointed Treasurer of the United States. The collection includes a biographical sketch of Priest and transcripts of seventeen speeches she gave while treasurer.

This collection, compiled from an anonymous donation and materials from the Mildred Jefferson and NARAL Pro-Choice collections, consists of mailings, pamphlets, and ephemera from pro-life organizations. Included is a mailing (including letter and leaflets) sent by an unidentified pro-life group to neighbors of a woman escorting patients to an abortion clinic in Boston, Massachusetts (2002). (Copy of letter has identifying information removed.) Other mailings are from Operation Rescue, the Republican National Coalition for Life, and the Eagle Forum (1988-2003). Also included are programs from annual dinners from the Pioneer Valley Region chapter of Massachusetts Citizens for Life (1989, 2007).

Putnam was a political activist, philanthropist, and pioneer in prenatal care. A political conservative, she worked against the Child Labor Amendment, the Sheppard-Towner Act, women's suffrage, the Equal Rights Amendment, and Prohibition. She was an active member of the Republican Party, serving as national president of the Coolidge Women's Clubs of America. Putnam was active in civil defense during WWI and in planning the Massachusetts Bay Tercentenary celebrations, was the first woman to serve as president of a state electoral college (1920), and was a published author.

Active in the woman's suffrage movement and the Republican Party in Idaho, Roberts was a librarian for the Idaho Traveling Library. The bulk of these papers consists of letters and telegrams pertaining to the suffrage movement and the Republican Party in Idaho. Correspondents include Senator William Borah of Idaho, Harriot Stanton Blatch, Carrie Chapman Catt, and Alice Paul. Also included are speeches, pamphlets, and clippings pertaining to her suffrage and library work, and correspondence concerning the founding of the League of Women Voters.

A nurse and Republican congresswoman from the Fifth District of Massachusetts, Rogers was elected in 1925 to fill the vacancy caused by the death of her husband, John Jacob Rogers. Re-elected to every successive Congress, she died in office in 1960, having served as chairman of the Veterans' Affairs Committee and as a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee. During both world wars, American presidents assigned Rogers to survey the medical care of wounded American soldiers overseas, and between the wars she oversaw the care of disabled veterans. Legislation attributed to Rogers includes improvement of the Foreign Service, establishment of the WAC, enactment of the G.I. Bill of Rights and the Korean veterans' benefits bill, establishment of a permanent Nurse Corps for veterans, and other laws providing aid and assistance to permanently disabled American war veterans.

Tillinghast was an ordained minister, speaker for prohibition, Commissioner of Immigration for New England (1927-1933), suffrage amendment advocate, and state and local Republican Party worker.

Active in the Republican Party on the county, state, and national levels, Weis was a New York congresswoman from 1958 to 1962. She also served as vice-chairman of the Monroe County Republican Committee (1937-1952); member of the advisory committee of the National Federation of Women's Republican Clubs (1937-1944); vice-chairman of the New York delegation to the Republican National Conventions in 1944, 1948, 1952, and 1956; and as associate campaign manager of the 1948 Dewey-Warren campaign. See also Additional Papers of Jessica Weis.