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Astor, Nancy
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Astor, Nancy (b. Nancy Witcher Langhorne) (1879–1964) Viscountess, politician; born in Danville, Va. In 1906 she married the 2nd Viscount Astor, to whose seat in Britain's Parliament she succeeded (Conservative, 1919–45). The first woman to sit in the House of Commons, she promoted temperance and women's rights and wrote an early autobiography, My Two Countries (1923).
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Lady Nancy Astor Fear of the unknown and doubting ones ability to achieve success have stopped many good people from achieving their goals.
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It was Lady Nancy Astor MP who told Winston Churchill: "You are drunk" (c 1920) May the ink in Rex's pen never run dry.
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1920: American-born Nancy Astor became the first woman to speak in the House of Commons following her election as an MP two months earlier.
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