Izetta Jewel

Izetta Jewel was an American stage actress, womens rights activist and politician. At the 1924 Democratic National Convention Jewels seconding speech for presidential nominee John W. Davis marked the first time a woman had addressed a major American political party convention.

Izetta Jewel Kenney was born in Hackettstown, New Jersey, the daughter of Cornelius Cook and Elizabeth Kenney. Her father was a professional photographer and her mother an artist and early advocate of womens rights. Jewel received her education at the Henry C. de Mille School for Girls at Pompton Township, New Jersey, the East Greenwich Academy in East Greenwich, Rhode Island and a years studies at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City. She made her professional stage debut at Wilmington, North Carolina on May 14, 1900 in a summer stock production of Thomas Hardys Tess of the dUrbervilles.

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