Rohde, Ruth Bryan (Owen) (1885–1954)

US representative, diplomat, and feminist. She served in the US House of Representatives (Democrat, Florida) 1929–33, the first congresswoman from the deep South, where she lobbied for women's rights. She was appointed a special US ambassador to Denmark and Iceland in 1933, the first woman to hold a major diplomatic post.

She was born in Jacksonville, Illinois. She attended school in Illinois and Nebraska University, but left to marry in 1903. Divorced and remarried, with four children, she supported the family through public speaking after her husband became an invalid. She was an alternate delegate to the United Nations in 1949.