Title supplied by cataloger. Helen Gahagan was a successful Broadway performer who, in 1931, married actor Melvyn Douglas. Elected in 1944, Gahagan Douglas was the third woman elected to Congress from California. She served California's 14th congressional district as a liberal Democrat from 1945-1951. Congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas poses with three men at an unidentified political event.
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image
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1 photographic print :b&w ;11 x 14 cm. Photographic prints
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