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Gracie Pfost (Grace Bowers) was born on 12 March, 1906 in Harrison, Arkansas, U.S., is an American politician (1906–1965). Discover Gracie Pfost's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 59 years old?

Popular As Grace Bowers
Occupation N/A
Age 59 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 12 March 1906
Birthday 12 March
Birthplace Harrison, Arkansas, U.S.
Date of death 11 August, 1965
Died Place Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1906

Gracie Bowers Pfost (March 12, 1906 – August 11, 1965) was the first woman to represent Idaho in the United States Congress, serving five terms as a Democrat in the House of Representatives.

1911

Born in an Ozark Mountain log cabin in Harrison, Arkansas, Pfost was five when her parents moved to a farm near Boise, Idaho, in 1911.

1922

One of five siblings, she quit Meridian High School at 16 in 1922 and worked as a milk analyst at a dairy in Nampa.

The next year she married her supervisor, Jack Pfost, who was more than twice her age.

1929

She graduated from Link's Business College in Boise in 1929.

Pfost entered politics in Canyon County; she held several positions in county government between 1929 and 1951, including deputy county clerk, auditor, recorder of deeds, and county treasurer.

1940

The Pfosts ran a real estate business in the 1940s and into the 1950s.

1944

She also served as an Idaho delegate to all Democratic National Conventions between 1944 and 1960.

1949

To date, Dworshak's seat (class 2), earlier held by William Borah for over three decades, has been continuously held by Republicans for over seventy years (since October 1949), and Idaho has yet to elect a woman to the U.S. Senate.

1950

In 1950, Pfost ran for Congress and won the Democratic nomination over Harry Wall of Lewiston, but narrowly lost to Republican John Travers Wood, a physician from Coeur d'Alene.

1952

In 1952, she defeated former eight-term Congressman Compton White, Sr. of Clark Fork in the Democratic primary and unseated Wood in another close general election.

1953

Pfost represented the state's 1st district from 1953 to 1963.

1954

Pfost was reelected in 1954, 1956, 1958, and 1960.

The "Hell's Belle" of Congress, she was a moderately liberal Democrat, who earned her nickname in her first year, fighting for a large federal dam on the Snake River in Hells Canyon.

After years of debate, the single high dam was ultimately defeated and built as a three-dam complex (Brownlee, Oxbow, Hells Canyon) by the local private utility, Idaho Power.

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1962

Though her House seat was considered secure, the death of Henry Dworshak in July 1962 prompted Pfost to run for his seat in the U.S. Senate.

She was the Democratic nominee in the special election, but was narrowly defeated (51%-49%) by the appointed Republican incumbent, former Governor Len Jordan.

1963

After leaving the House in 1963, Pfost remained in Washington and worked in the Federal Housing Administration as a special assistant on housing for the elderly.

She was hospitalized in Washington with pneumonia in October and a few months later at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland.

1965

Later diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease, Pfost was admitted to Johns Hopkins Hospital several times in 1965, and died there on August 11 at age 59.

Pfost's husband Jack died of a heart attack four years earlier, at her Washington office during her last term in Congress.

They did not have children and are buried at Meridian Cemetery in Meridian, Idaho.

1966

The election took place shortly after the Cuban Missile Crisis of late October; Jordan was re-elected in 1966 and retired at the end of that term, in early 1973.

Pfost's congressional seat was won by six points by Democrat Compton White, Jr. of Clark Fork, the 41-year-old namesake son of the late eight-term congressman.

Idaho's other House seat also went to young Democrat, as 33-year-old Ralph Harding of Blackfoot won a second term.

Idaho's other U.S. Senate seat (class 3) was also on the ballot, with 38-year-old Democrat Frank Church of Boise re-elected to the second of four terms.