"Mrs. Smith said her life in politics was her only life. "I have no family, no time-consuming hobbies," she said late in her Senate career. "I have only myself and my job as United States Senator." But she also had a sense of humor. In 1952, when asked by a reporter what she would do if she woke up one morning and found herself in the White House, she replied: "I'd go straight to Mrs. Truman and apologize. Then I'd go home.""
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Members of the United States House of RepresentativesMembers of the United States SenateWomen academics from the United StatesUnited States presidential candidates, 1964Politicians from Maine
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Richard Severo, in "Margaret Chase Smith Is Dead at 97; Maine Republican Made History Twice" in The New York Times (30 May 1995)
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Margaret Chase Smith
Margaret Chase Smith (14 December 1897 - 29 May 1995) was an U.S. politician, a Republican Senator from Maine, the first woman to be elected to both the US House and the Senate, and the first woman to have her name placed in nomination for the US Presidency at a major party convention (1964 Republican). She was one of the first Republican Members of Congress to criticize Senator Joseph McCarthy during the Second Red Scare.
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