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Constance Markievicz, Irish revolutionary and first woman elected to the UK House of Commons (died 1927)
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Constance Markievicz
Irish revolutionary and suffragist (1868–1927)
Constance Georgine Markievicz, also known as Countess Markievicz and Madame Markievicz, was an Irish revolutionary nationalist politician, suffragist and socialist who was the first woman elected to the Parliament of the United Kingdom. She came from the upper class Anglo-Irish…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
House of Commons
Type of legislative assembly
The House of Commons is the name for the elected lower house of the bicameral parliaments of the United Kingdom and Canada. In both of these countries, the Commons holds much more legislative power than the nominally upper house of parliament. The leader of the majority party in…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)