The Wilmington Morning Star (August 10, 1944)
Blue-eyed girl attorney will oppose Clare Luce
Bridgeport, Connecticut (AP) – (Aug. 9)
Dark-haired, blue-eyed, five-foot-five Margaret E. Connors was happy but a bit sleepy today after a night of excitement which saw her chosen unanimously to head the Democratic fight in Connecticut’s 4th Congressional district against its phrase-making, author, playwright, and actress, Republican incumbent Mrs. Clare Boothe Luce.
Shaping up with the nomination by Republicans tonight of Mrs. Luce for a second term was the first all-woman, major party, Congressional contest in the East since 1942 and one of the few in political history.
Miss Connors said:
It’s too early to make plans and I’m too happy to think about them now.
A graduate of Wellesley College and of the Yale Law School, Miss Connors is no stranger to public speaking nor to public office. At 25, she was Deputy Secretary of State, the youngest person ever to hold that job and the first woman.
During her years at Yale, she worked one vacation in the New Haven office of the Department of Justice, earning newspaper mention as “Connecticut’s G-woman.”
In Bridgeport, her law practice is mixed but she takes few criminal cases. Despite a substantial clientele, she finds time to keep up with tennis and golf as well as to interest herself in industrial advisory work at the YWCA.