The caption of this photograph declares that Edith Nourse Rogers was “the first woman to preside over a session of the House” when she filled in for Speaker Nicholas Longworth in 1929. But the caption of a different photograph, showing another Congresswoman on the Speaker’s rostrum, asserts that in 1922, Winnifred Mason Huck became the first woman in the Speaker’s chair. Neither of these captions is correct: records show that Alice Mary Robertson was, in fact, the first woman to preside over the House, on June 20, 1921.
