Hello, my name is Margaret Chase Smith.
     I was born on December 14, 1897 in Skowhegan, Maine. My husband’s name was Clyde H. Smith.
     I was the first of six children. George E. Chase and Carrie Murray Chase were my mother and father. My father was a barber. I worked at a store. I attended public schools. I graduated from high school in 1916.
     I taught in a one room school house in Skowhegan. 
     I was elected in 1948 to the United States Senate. I was the first woman to be placed in nomination for the presidency at a major party convention in 1964. I sponsored the equal rights amendment. 
     Here are some things that happened in Maine while I was alive.  In 1994, Angus King was elected as governor. In 1898, the Spanish American war began after the battleship “Maine” was blown up in Havana, Cuba. About 2,000 Mainers served in the war. 
     I became one of the most popular law makers in Maine's history. I died at my house on Memorial Day, May 29, 1995.

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Ashley