When Helen Maudina Sweet was born on 19 September 1913, in Knox, Tennessee, United States, her father, David Henry Sweet, was 21 and her mother, Cordia Irene Murray, was 14. She had at least 2 sons and 5 daughters with Hubert Huddleston. She lived in Bell, Kentucky, United States in 1930 and Magisterial District 8, Bell, Kentucky, United States in 1940. She died on 10 August 1986, in Somerset, Pulaski, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 72.
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Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
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English (Somerset): from the Middle English personal name Swet(e) (Old English Swēt(a) (male), Swēte (female)), or else a nickname from Middle English swet(e), sweyt ‘sweet; pleasing; beloved; attractive’ (Old English swēte, swōt), from which the personal names derive. Compare Swett .
Americanized form (translation into English) of German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) Suess and French Ledoux ‘the gentle, the sweet’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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