Publication Date
7-1-2013
Document Type
Article
First Page
235
Last Page
254
Abstract
Contrary to the conventional narrative of Margaret Chase Smith’s life, her public career did not begin with her 1930 marriage to politician Clyde H. Smith. By the time of that marriage, she was already an experienced political leader and an accomplished professional. Her transformation from an uneducated, working-class girl to an ambitious, upwardly mobile, middle-class woman was the result of her employment at the local newspaper, the Somerset County Independent-Reporter, and her subsequent involvement in the Business and Professional Women’s Club. The author received her Ph.D. in history from Texas A&M University and is an associate professor of history and political science at Schreiner University in Kerrville, Texas.
Recommended Citation
Cockroft, Jeannette W.. "The Transformative Power of Work: The Early Life of Senator Margaret Chase Smith." Maine History 47, 2 (2013): 235-254. https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mainehistoryjournal/vol47/iss2/5