Nan Wood Honeyman | |
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| Member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromOregon's3rd district | |
| In office January 3, 1937 – January 3, 1939 | |
| Preceded by | William A. Ekwall |
| Succeeded by | Homer D. Angell |
| Member of theOregon Senate | |
| In office 1941–1942 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Nan Wood (1881-07-15)July 15, 1881 West Point, New York, U.S. |
| Died | December 10, 1970(1970-12-10) (aged 89) Woodacre, California, U.S. |
| Resting place | River View Cemetery |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse | David Honeyman |
Nan Honeyman (néeWood; July 15, 1881 – December 10, 1970) was an American politician from the state ofOregon. A native ofNew York, she was the daughter of author and attorneyCharles Erskine Scott Wood. After growing up in Oregon, she served in theOregon House of Representatives and theOregon State Senate. Between these offices, Honeyman became the first woman elected to theUnited States Congress from Oregon in 1936.
She was born Nan Wood inWest Point, New York, in 1881 to the notedlibertarian authorCharles Erskine Scott Wood (died 1944) and Nanny Moale Wood (died 1933).[1][2] She moved with her parents three years later toPortland, Oregon, where she graduated from St. Helens Hall (later incorporated in theOregon Episcopal School) in 1898.[3][4] Nan was one of five children: her siblings were Berwick Bruce, Elisa, Erskine, and William Maxwell.[2] Her education continued later at theFinch School inNew York City, where she began a lifelong friendship withEleanor Roosevelt.[5]
She married David Honeyman in 1907, with whom she raised three children[5][3] and was active in civic and humanitarian organizations before becoming involved in politics. Honeyman served as a delegate to the state constitutional convention in 1933, which ratified theTwenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution, repealingprohibition.[6] She was a member of theOregon House of Representatives from 1935 to 1937 and served as a delegate to the Democratic national conventions in 1936 and 1940.
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Honeyman was elected as aDemocrat to theUnited States House of Representatives, representingOregon's 3rd congressional district and served from 1937 to 1939, the first congresswoman from Oregon. While in Congress, Honeyman was a strong supporter of theNew Deal and the completion of theBonneville Dam.[5] However, her bids for reelection in 1938 and election in 1940 were unsuccessful.
She held the position of senior representative of the Pacific CoastOffice of Price Administration from 1941 to 1942. During the same period, theMultnomah County Commissioners appointed Honeyman to theOregon Senate in 1941 to fill a vacancy, and she served until her resignation in 1942. She was U.S. Collector of Customs inPortland, Oregon from 1942 to 1953.
In 1942, her father and several other relatives sued Honeyman and her husband over her husband's mismanagement of several family trusts.[2] The court determined David Honeyman had misappropriated in excess of $100,000 of trust funds while Nan was left blameless.[2] In 1946, the case was finally resolved after theOregon Supreme Court affirmed the lower court's ruling, which came after Honeyman's father died in 1944.[2]
Honeyman died inWoodacre, California, on December 10, 1970, and was buried atRiver View Cemetery in Portland.[7]
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