Vera Cahalan Bushfield Biography


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BUSHFIELD, Vera Cahalan (widow of Harlan J. Bushfield), a Senator from South 
Dakota; born in Miller, Hand County, S. Dak., August 9,1889; attended the 
public schools; was graduated from Miller High School in 1908 and from Stout 
Institute, Menominee, Wis., in 1912; also attended Dakota Wesleyan University 
and the University of Minnesota; appointed as a Republican to the United 
States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of her husband, Harlan 
J. Bushfleld, and served from October 6, 1948, until her resignation on 
December 26, 1948; is a resident of Miller, S. Dak.