Simms, Ruth Hanna McCormick

Simms, Ruth Hanna McCormick

▪ American public official
née  Ruth Hanna 
born March 27, 1880, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.
died Dec. 31, 1944, Chicago, Ill.

      American public official, an activist on behalf of woman suffrage, (woman suffrage) and a Republican representative to the U.S. Congress.

      Ruth Hanna was the daughter of industrialist and political kingmaker Mark Hanna (Hanna, Mark), and she often accompanied her father as he attended to business and labour problems and to the organization and campaigns of the Republican Party. In 1903 she married Joseph Medill McCormick of the Chicago newspaper family. She and her husband shared an interest in progressive social ideas, and she was active in several national welfare and reform organizations. In 1913 she lobbied the Illinois legislature to great effect on behalf of the bill to grant women the franchise, and in 1913–15 she headed the Congressional Committee of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. She also lobbied the legislature on behalf of child-labour and minimum-wage legislation.

      With her husband, McCormick supported Theodore Roosevelt's breakaway Progressive Party in 1912, but she later returned to the Republican Party. She supported military preparedness before World War I and opposed the Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations afterward. In 1918 she was named the first chairman of the newly established women's executive committee of the Republican National Committee, and in 1920 she became a member of the main executive committee. Following her husband's defeat for reelection to his Senate seat in 1924 and his death in 1925, she organized scores of local Republican women's clubs throughout the state and ran successfully for an at-large congressional seat in 1928; her 1,700,000 votes (a 400,000 plurality) led the ticket in Illinois.

      In 1930 McCormick entered and won the Republican primary for a Senate seat but was defeated by Senator J. Hamilton Lewis after a campaign marked by charges against her of political expediency and excessive campaign expenditures. She then turned to her business interests, which included a radio station and a group of three newspapers in Rockford, Illinois, that she had bought in the late 1920s and combined in 1930. In 1932 she married Albert G. Simms, a former congressman from New Mexico. She founded the Sandia School for Girls in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 1934 but reentered active politics in 1939.

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