Caroline Love Goodwin O'Day

Caroline Love Goodwin O'Day

Caroline Love Goodwin O'Day (June 22, 1875 - January 4, 1943) was a U. S. Representative within the Congressional delegation from New York. She was the third woman and fist woman Democrat elected to Congress from New York. Born in Perry, Houston County, Georgia, she attended private schools and was graduated from Lucy Cobb Institute in Athens, Georgia. She studied art in Paris, Munich, and Holland and served as president of the Rye School Board. She was vice chairman of the New York Democratic State committee from 1916 to 1920 and was associate chairman from 1923 to 1942. She was a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1924, 1928, 1932, and 1936 and was a commissioner of the State board of social welfare from 1923 to 1934.

O'Day was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fourth and to the three succeeding Congresses, holding office from January 3, 1935 to January 3, 1943. While in the House she was chairwoman of the Committee on Election of President, Vice President, and Representatives (Seventy-fifth through Seventy-seventh Congresses). Among the legislation she sponsored or co-sponsored was the Wagner-O'Day Act, the predecessor to the Javits-Wagner-O'Day Act.She was not a candidate for renomination in 1942.

In 1901, she married Daniel O'Day in New York. [http://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/teachinger/glossary/oday-caroline.cfm]

O'Day died in Rye; interment was in Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla, New York.

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