RARE “1st Female Ambassador\" Ruth Bryan Owen Hand Signed 8X10 Sepia Photo COA for Sale

RARE “1st Female Ambassador\" Ruth Bryan Owen Hand Signed 8X10 Sepia Photo COA For Sale

$RARE “1st Female Ambassador\$
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RARE “1st Female Ambassador\" Ruth Bryan Owen Hand Signed 8X10 Sepia Photo COA:
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Up for sale\"1st Female Ambassador\" Ruth Bryan Owen Signed 8X10 Sepia Photo.This item is authenticated By ToddMueller Autographs and comes with their certificate of authenticity.

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Ruth Baird Bryan Leavitt Owen Rohde, also known asRuth Bryan Owen, (October 2, 1885 – July 26, 1954) was elected to two terms in theU.S. House of Representativesand was the first woman appointed as a United States ambassador. The daughter of attorneysWilliam Jennings BryanandMary E. Baird, she was aDemocrat, who in 1929 was elected fromFlorida\'s 4th districtasFlorida\'s first female U.S. Representative and the second fromthe SouthafterAlice Mary Robertson.Representative Owen was also the first woman to earn a seat on theU.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs.She campaigned forprohibition. In 1933, she became the first woman to be appointed as a U.S. ambassador, when PresidentFranklin D. Rooseveltselected her as Ambassador toDenmarkandIceland. Ruth Bryan was born on October 2, 1885, inJacksonville, Illinois, to William Jennings Bryan and his wife Mary E. Baird. Ruth\'s father was an attorney and a three-time presidential candidate. Growing up Ruth had to move several times depending on her father\'s work in politics. Ruth attended public schools in Washington, D.C and theMonticello Female AcademyinGodfrey, Illinois. In 1901 she began to take classes at theUniversity of Nebraska. In 1903 Bryan dropped out of theUniversity of Nebraskato marryWilliam H. Leavitt, a well-knownNewport, Rhode Islandportrait painter. The couple met when he was painting Bryan\'s father\'s portrait. The couple had two children before divorcing in 1909. Bryan married Reginald Owen, a British Army officer, in 1910, and had two more children with him. Her second husband died in 1928. She spent three years inOracabessa, Jamaica, where she oversaw the design and construction of her home,Golden Clouds. It is now operated as a luxuryvilla. Owen kept her home in Jamaica for more than three decades and spent many winters there, particularly in later years when she lived inDenmarkandNew York City. She detailed her time in Jamaica and experiences at Golden Clouds in her book,Caribbean Caravel.During World War I, Bryan served as a war nurse in the Voluntary Aid Detachment in the Egypt–Palestine campaign, 1915–1918. She also served as a secretary for theAmerican Women\'s War Relief Fund. From 1933 to 1936 Bryan Owen served asUnited States Ambassador to Denmark, appointed by PresidentFranklin D. Roosevelt.She served successfully until 1936, when she married Borge Rohde, a Danish Captain of the King\'s Guard, on July 11. The marriage gave her dual citizenship as a Dane—in addition to that of the United States—so she resigned her ambassadorial post in SeptemberThe wedding took place at the estate of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt andEleanor Rooseveltin Hyde Park, New York.Fannie Hurst, noted novelist and close friend of the bride, was matron of honor. Mrs. Owen announced that she would retain her own name in her diplomatic and literary careers. She served as a delegate to theSan Francisco Conference, which established theUnited Nationsafter World War II. In 1948, President Truman named her an alternate delegate to theU.N. General Assembly.