Helen Douglas Mankin
Helen Douglas Mankin (September 11, 1896 – July 25, 1956) was an American politician. She was the second woman to represent Georgia in the United States House of Representatives, serving part of one term from 1946 to 1947 after winning a special election to fill the seat of a predecessor who had resigned. Life 
Mankin was born September 11, 1896, in Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia. She grew up there, attending public and private schools. She graduated with an A.B. from Rockford College, Rockford, Illinois, in 1917. She graduated with an LL.B. from Atlanta Law School in 1920. World War I 
During and after the First World War, Mankin served as an ambulance driver and mechanic in the American Women's Hospital Unit No. 1,  a Red Cross unit attached to the French army in 1918 and 1919. She was there as a civilian and was not officially a military veteran. She was decorated by the French government with a Medaille de Reconnaissance. In 1925, Douglas became the fifth national president of the Women's Overseas Service League. Career 
After the war and earning her law degree, Mankin entered private practice as an attorney in Atlanta, Georgia. State legislature 
She entered politics, and served as a Democratic member of the Georgia House of Representatives from 1937 until 1946. Congress 
In 1946, Mankin was elected as a Democrat to represent the fifth congressional district of Georgia in the 79th United States Congress, filling the seat left vacant by the resignation of Robert Ramspeck. She took her seat February 12, 1946. Campaign for re-election 
Mankin was an unsuccessful candidate in that year's Democratic Party primary election when she sought renomination (although she won a majority of Atlanta's African-American vote). She was then an unsuccessful write-in candidate in the general election. Later career and death 
Mankin's term of office concluded January 3, 1947. She continued to live in Atlanta, and she died there on July 25, 1956. See also
 Women in the United States House of Representatives

References

Spritzer, Lorraine Nelson. The Belle of Ashby Street:  Helen Douglas Mankin and Georgia Politics. Athens:  The University of Georgia Press, 1982. MANKIN, Helen Douglas, Office of the Historian: Office of Art & Archives, Office of the Clerk
 Helen Douglas Mankin (1894-1956), ''New Georgia Encyclopedia

1896 births
1956 deaths
Georgia (U.S. state) lawyers
Politicians from Atlanta
Atlanta Law School alumni
American Red Cross personnel
Rockford University alumni
Female members of the United States House of Representatives
Women state legislators in Georgia (U.S. state)
Democratic Party members of the Georgia House of Representatives
Women in Georgia (U.S. state) politics
Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Georgia (U.S. state)
20th-century American politicians
20th-century American women politicians
20th-century American lawyers