My grandmother, Bernice Savage Bowery was the mother of eight children. According to my now 92-year old aunt, my grandmother, in addition to raising eight children was a social activist. She would spend many a day down at the Palm Beach FL court house complaining and advocating for one thing or another. Eventually someone there said to her, “If you are so passionate about this, why don’t you run for Congress?” So she did. Less than 10 years after women achieved the vote via the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution. She didn’t win but she did run. My mother never told me this story since she was an infant/toddler when Grandma spoke out and ran for office.
