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Rebecca Latimer was born in 1835 near Decatur. She married William Felton and was actively involved in his political career as a state legislator and congressman. Rebecca staunchly promoted progressive reforms like temperance, women’s rights, and ending the convict lease syste, but she was equally outspoken in her prejudice against blacks and ...
Rebecca Latimer Felton, the nation's first female senator, wrote My Memoirs of Georgia Politics after her seventy-fifth birthday. Through speeches and her writings, she helped to effect statewide prohibition and to bring an end to the convict lease system in Georgia. From History of the Georgia Woman's Christian Temperance Movement, by Mrs. J ...
Rebecca Latimer Felton and the Wife's Farm: The Class and Racial Politics of Gender Reform. By LeeAnn Whites. was the annual meeting of the Georgia Agricultural. in the summer of 1897 on Tybee Island. The meeting was half filled on that sultry August afternoon as. Latimer Felton took her place on the platform and.
Jan 19, 2020 · I consider Rebecca Latimer Felton (b. 1835) to be one of these powerful women. Felton became the oldest freshman senator - and first female senator - at eighty-seven years old in 1922. In this article I analyze the political career of Rebecca Felton—a patriotic and successful, yet highly controversial legislator in the Progressive Era.
Nov 2, 2021 · Rebecca Latimer Felton (1835-1930), a Georgia native, graduated from Madison Female College in 1852 and received an honorary degree University of Georgia in 1922. After her marriage to William Harrell Felton in 1853, she lived in Bartow County, had five children, and wrote and lectured extensively.
Rebecca Latimer Felton's father, a tavern keeper and the local postmaster, believed his daughters should be as well educated as boys and helped build a school in the community. Felton graduated from the Madison Female College in 1852, and the following year married a widowed physician and Methodist minister.
FELTON, Rebecca Latimer, (wife of William Harrell Felton), a Senator from Georgia; born near Decatur, De Kalb County, Ga., June 10, 1835; attended the common schools and graduated from the Madison Female College in 1852; moved to Bartow County, Ga., in 1854; taught school; writer, lecturer, and reformer with special interest in agricultural and women's issues; served as secretary to her ...
