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From Suffrage to the Senate America's Political Women: An Encyclopedia of Leaders, Causes & Issues

Stanley, Winifred Claire (1909-1996)

Republican Winifred Stanley of New York served in the U.S. House of Representatives from January 3, 1943 to January 3, 1945. When Stanley accepted the Republican nomination for Congress, she did it with the understanding that it would be for only one term. New York Republican Party leaders wanted to eliminate the party’s two at-large seats and sought candidates willing to retire after one term. Stanley campaigned for Congress on a 12-point program for winning World War II. She believed that Washington dignitaries should make the same sacrifices for the war as the rest of the nation, and she pledged to seek further protection against sabotage. Congresswoman Stanley proposed a measure for equal pay for equal work and an Equal Rights Amendment.

Even though she was not a candidate in 1944, Stanley campaigned in 15 states for Republican candidates. She told one audience, “American voters are sick of the New Deal’s mismanagement which results in two agencies doing the work of one. They are tired of the countless alphabetical agencies and bureaus which have spring up like mushrooms.”

Following her term in Congress, Stanley served as chief counsel of the New York State Employees’ Retirement System from 1945 to 1955. She was assistant attorney general with the New York State Law Department from 1955 to 1979, when she went into private law practice. She retired in 1986.

Born in the Bronx, New York, Winifred Stanley received her BA in 1930 and her JD in 1933, both from the University of Buffalo. She worked for a private law firm until 1938, when she became an assistant district attorney in Erie County, New York, serving there until 1943.

See also: Congress, Women in

References: H. W. Wilson, Current Biography: Who’s News and Why, 1943 (1943); The New York Times, November 6, 1944; Office of the Historian, U.S. House of Representatives, Women in Congress, 1917-1990 (1991).

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