#OnThisDay, 13 Nov 1931, Democrat Hattie Wyatt Caraway is appointed as a US Senator for Arkansas.
The first woman to sit in the Senate for more than a day, she'd been selected by the party on the understanding that she would serve out her late husband's term and not stand for re-election in 1932.
Instead she stood again, and remained a Senator until 1945.
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