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Charles Curtis was the First and Only Native American ever to be elected to high office in the United States. He was Vice-President under Herbert Hoover. During his total of 38 years in the United States Congress, the United States Senate and finally as Vice-President of the United States, his sister, Dolly Gann, served as his secretary and as his campaign manager. Charles Curtis was first elected to Congress in 1892, long before women were allowed to vote. In 1932, his sister became the first woman ever to actively campaign during a Presidential election. The sister of Ex-Vice-President Charles Curtis tells the story of her life in Washington and her adventures in politics. As official hostess for her brother in the Hoover Administration, she was the subject of many anecdotes, especially in connection with the so-called “precedence war” started by the late husband of Alice Roosevelt Longworth. In a breezy chapter on this social flurry, Mrs. Gann describes it as a “tempest in a teapot”. In other entertaining chapters she describes what happened behind the scenes of three National Republican Conventions when she was manager for Mr. Curtis. The author knows her politics, and in the campaign of 1932 she made speeches in twenty-two States. She also knows, of course, all the ins and outs of official and diplomatic society in Washington. Her friends are legion. They will find in her book the same bubbling good nature that makes her a favorite in the national capital.
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