Nan Wood Honeyman

Nan Wood Honeyman was an American politician from the state of Oregon. A native of New York, she was the daughter of author and attorney Charles Erskine Scott Wood. After growing up in Oregon, she served in the Oregon House of Representatives and the Oregon State Senate. Between these offices, Honeyman became the first woman elected to the United States Congress from Oregon in 1936.

She was born Nan Wood in West Point, New York, in 1881 to the noted progressive author Charles Erskine Scott Wood and Nanny Moale Wood . She moved with her parents three years later to Portland, Oregon, where she graduated from St. Helens Hall in 1898. Nan was one of five children her siblings were Berwick Bruce, Elisa, Erskine, and William Maxwell. Her education continued later at the Finch School in New York City, where she began a lifelong friendship with Eleanor Roosevelt.

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