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| This Day In History: First Serving Female British MP Elected  Nancy Witcher Astor, or Viscountess Astor, was the second woman elected to the British Parliament's House of Commons and the first to actually serve. She was a Conservative member who concentrated on women's issues, temperance, and child welfare. Astor attracted a great deal of attention, much of it for her caustic and witty comments, and was reelected many times, serving until 1945. When she said to Winston Churchill, "If you were my husband, I'd put arsenic in your coffee," how did he respond? More... | |||||||||||||
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11-28-2007, 01:16 PM | # 2 Quick Link (permalink) | |||||||||||||
| Re: This Day In History: First Serving Female British MP Elected Churchill responded, "Madam, if you were my wife, I'd take it!" | |||||||||||||
| "...a nation at war puts aside all internal conflicts until the moment of victory or defeat..." Gunther Rall. on another topic: Free the Three! | ||||||||||||||
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| Re: This Day In History: First Serving Female British MP Elected Her middle name should of been a big hint!  | ||||||||||||||
| "LEAD ME NOT INTO TEMPTATION, I CAN FIND IT MYSELF" | |||||||||||||||
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