Doloris Bridges (May 28, 1916 – January 16, 1969), widow of 25-year U.S. Senator H. Styles Bridges, was the first woman to seek election to the U.S. Senate from New Hampshire.[1] Considered an example of staunchly anti-communist women who emerged as leaders during the Goldwater era of the Republican Party in the mid-1960s,[2] she died of cancer before the decade was over, without ever winning office.
- ^ “Mrs. Bridges will Try for Senate Seat,” Portsmouth Herald, 1962-01-10 at p. 1.
- ^ Mary C. Brennan, “Wives, Mothers, and the Red Menace: Conservative Women and the Crusade against Communism,” Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2008. ISBN 978-0-87081-885-1