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Senate Years of Service: 1948-1948 Party: Republican
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South Dakota State Historical Society |
BUSHFIELD, Vera Cahalan, (wife of Harlan J. Bushfield),
a Senator from South Dakota; born in Miller, Hand County, S.Dak.,
August 9, 1889; attended the public schools; graduated from Stout Institute,
Menominee, Wis., in 1912; also attended Dakota Wesleyan University and the
University of Minnesota; appointed on October 6, 1948, as a Republican to the
United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of her husband,
Harlan J. Bushfield, and served from October 6, 1948, until her resignation on
December 26, 1948; died in Fort Collins, Colo., April 16, 1976; interment in
the G.A.R. Cemetery, Miller, S.Dak.
BibliographyPressler, Larry. Vera Bushfield. In U.S. Senators from
the Prairie, pp. 129-30. Vermillion, S. Dak.: Dakota Press, 1982;
Vera Cahalan Bushfield, in
Women in Congress, 1917-2006. Prepared under the direction of
the Committee on House Administration by the Office of History &
Preservation, U.S. House of Representatives. Washington, D.C.: Government
Printing Office, 2006.
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