Rebecca Latimer Felton

Date:

1880

URL at Partner site:

http://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/cdm/ref/collection/athpc/id/96

DLG URL:

https://dlg.usg.edu/record/geh_athpc_96

Subject:

Women--1880-1890, Clothing and dress--1880-1890, Activists--Georgia--Atlanta, Political consultants--Georgia--Atlanta, Portraits, and Felton, Rebecca Latimer, 1835-1930

Spatial coverage:

United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798

Medium:

black-and-white photographs

Description:

Portrait of Rebecca Latimer Felton, a writer, advocate for women's rights, a political consultant to her husband, United States Congressman William Harrell Felton.||Rebecca Ann Latimer Felton (1835-1930) was a teacher, writer, political consultant, and advocate for prohibition, women's rights, public education and prison reform.She served as campaign manager and press secretary for her husband, William Harrell Felton, who served in the United States Congress from 1875 to 1881 and in the Georgia State Legislature from 1884 to 1890.Beginning in 1899, Felton wrote a column for The Atlanta Journal.She was also the author of three books: My Memoirs of Georgia Politics; Country Life in Georgia in the Days of My Youth; and The Romantic Story of Georgia's Women.In 1922, Rebecca Latimer Felton was appointed to the United States Senate after the death of Senator Thomas E. Watson.Although she served only one day in the Senate, she is credited with being the first female Senator in United States history and the only female Senator in Georgia's history.

Holding Institution:

Atlanta History Center

Collection:

Atlanta History Photograph Collection

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/