Helen Gahagan was born in Booton, New Jersey back in 1900 to Walter and Lillian. Following an argument with her father she was sent to the Capen School for Girls in Northampton, Massachusetts.
In 1927, you could find her singing opera, touring Europe receiving critical praise. In1930, she married Melvyn however, she kept her maiden name. in 1935, had a starring role in the movie “She”. In 1938, she was in Vienna where she had coffee with a Nazi sympathizer. The experience sickened her that she immediately flew back to Los Angeles determined to strike out Nazism. However, what happened to her in 1944 will forever place her in the history books.
Helen Gahagan Douglas was the first woman elected to the Congress from California. I’m sure it is lost to history however she also had an open love affair with Lyndon B. Johnson. Never heard that one before now. Anyway, until tomorrow keep those pearly whites shinning
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