Edith Nourse Rogers won a 1925 special election after husband, Congressman John Rogers, died in office. This handbill dates from 1926, Rogers’ first general election. As the flyer said, she was indeed “always on the job.” She had been her husband’s adviser for a dozen years, and went on to be one of the longest-serving women in the House, serving until 1960. She trod carefully on the new political ground of women serving on their own merits, both touting her knowledge and noting that she was still “Mrs. John Jacob Rogers.”