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Dame Enid Muriel Lyons AD, GBE (née Burnell; 9 July 1897 – 2 September 1981) was an Australian politician who was the first woman elected to the House of Representatives and the first woman to serve in the federal cabinet. Prior to her own political career, she was best known as the wife of Joseph Lyons, who was Prime Minister of Australia (1932–1939) and Premier of Tasmania (1923–1928). Lyons was born in Smithton, Tasmania. She grew up in various small towns in northern Tasmania and trained as a schoolteacher. At the age of 17, she married politician Joseph Lyons, who was almost 18 years her senior. They would have twelve children together, all but one of whom lived to adulthood. As her husband's career progressed, Lyons began assisting him in campaigning and developed a reputation as a talented public speaker. In 1925, she became one of the first two women to stand for the Labor Party at a Tasmanian state election. She followed her husband into the new United Australia Party (UAP) following the Labor split of 1931. After her husband became prime minister in 1932, Lyons began living at The Lodge in Canberra. She was one of the best-known prime minister's wives, writing newspaper articles, making radio broadcasts, and giving open-air speeches. Her husband's sudden death in office in 1939 came as a great shock, and she withdrew from public life for a time. At the 1943 federal election, Lyons successfully stood for the UAP in the Division of Darwin. She and Senator (Dame) Dorothy Tangney became the first two women elected to federal parliament. Lyons joined the new Liberal Party in 1945 and served as Vice-President of the Executive Council in the Menzies Government from 1949 to 1951 – the first woman in cabinet. She retired from parliament after three terms but remained involved in public life as a board member of the Australian Broadcasting Commission (1951–1962) and as a social commentator. Lyons first fell pregnant a few months after her marriage but miscarried just after her 18th birthday.[36] She suffered a second miscarriage the following year, and in her memoirs recounted having to watch on as a nurse threw the remains of the fetus into a bedside fireplace. She was told by doctors that she would never be able to have children,[37] but in fact, went on to give birth to twelve – the firstborn when she was 19 and the last born when she was 36. Her subsequent pregnancies went relatively smoothly, with the exception of a third miscarriage in 1926; she had to carry the dead fetus for three months before it could be removed.[38] All but one of her children survived to adulthood, and all those who did out-lived her. Her son Garnet, born in 1924, died from meningitis at the age of 10 months.[39] Another son, Barry, was born with achondroplasia.[40] Gerald Desmond (1916–2000) Sheila Mary Norma (1918–2000) Enid Veronica (1919–1988) – married army officer Maurice Austin Kathleen Patricia (1920–2012) Moira Rose (1922–1991) Kevin Orchard (1923–2000) Garnet Philip Burnell (1924–1925) Brendan Aloysius (1927–2010) Barry Joseph (1928–2015) Rosemary Josephine (1929–1999) Peter Julian (b. 1931) Janice Mary (1933-2020) Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enid_Lyons

Mr. Clark was politician, and unsuccessful candidate for Democratic nomination for President in 1912, losing to Woodrow Wilson. He was accused of being part of the corrupt machine politics of the age. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champ_Clark Clark actually had the majority of the votes for the nomination, but did not get 2/3, which opened the door to Wilson. He looks pretty confident here though. Below is article about wild and woolly 3-way election of 1912. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Election_of_1912

Champ Clark is shown here at Sea Girt, New Jersey, bitterly disappointed and humiliated after the 1912 Democratic National Convention, in which he lost the party's Presidential nomination to Woodrow Wilson. Sea Girt, a resort town, was the location of the New Jersey "summer White House." Wilson, who was still the Governor of New Jersey, received visitors there while he mapped out the fall campaign. Clark was part of a delegation of Congressmen who came to Sea Girt to congratulate Wilson. Other Bain/LOC photos show Woodrow Wilson seated in the rocking chair beside Clark:

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