November 19, 1928

William Allen Oldfield, who had served in the U.S. House of Representatives for Arkansas’s Second District since his election in 1908, died after more than twenty years in the office. The succession of his widow, Pearl, whose nomination was made by the Democratic Central Committee rather than in a special primary election, made her the first woman from Arkansas elected to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives.

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