What is Margaret Chase Smith?
[[File:Margaret Chase Smith.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Smith in 1973]] '''Margaret Chase Smith''' (14 December 1897 — 29 May 1995)<ref>{{cite web|title=Margaret Chase Smith|publisher=The MCS Library|url=http://www.mcslibrary.org/bio/biog.htm|accessdate=January 3, 2014|archive-date=September 14, 2000|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000914043828/http://www.mcslibrary.org/bio/biog.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> was an [[Americans|American]] politician. She was a member of the [[United States House of Representatives|House of Representatives]] from 1940 to 1949, and a [[United States Senate|United States Senator]] from 1949 to 1973. She was from the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]]. She was the first female to be in both houses of the [[United States Congress]]. Chase was born in [[Maine]]. She died after a [[stroke]] at age 97. ==References== <references/> {{DEFAULTSORT:Chase Smith, Margaret}} [[Category:1964 United States presidential candidates]] [[Category:United States senators from Maine]] [[Category:Republican Party (United States) politicians]] [[Category:Deaths from stroke]] [[Category:1897 births]] [[Category:1995 deaths]] {{us-bio-stub}}