About Millicent Fenwick
Millicent Vernon Fenwick (née Hammond; February 25, 1910 – September 16, 1992) was an American fashion model, Vogue magazine editor, socialite, Republican Party politician, and diplomat who represented New Jersey in the United States House of Representatives from 1975 to 1983. She also served in the New Jersey General Assembly from 1970 to 1972 and as the first United States Ambassador to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture from 1983 to 1987. She was famous for her energy and colorful enthusiasm and regarded as a political moderate or progressive within her party. She was outspoken in favor of civil rights and the women's movement. == Early life and education == Millicent Vernon Hammond was born in New York City on February 25, 1910 to Ogden H. Hammond (1869–1956) and his first wife, Mary Picton Stevens (1885–1915). Her father was a graduate of Yale University, an insurance and real estate broker, and local Republican Party politician in Bernardsville, New Jersey. He had been born to a prominent family in Louisville, Kentucky, and his father John Henry Hammond had served as chief of staff to William Tecumseh Sherman during the Vicksburg campaign. Her mother, Mary, was the heiress to a prominent Hoboken, New Jersey family and a great-granddaughter of Edwin Augustus Stevens, who had founded Stevens Institute of Technology. Millicent was the second of three children, with siblings Mary Stevens Hammond and Ogden Jr., and they were raised in a Bernardsville mansion with 50 rooms. In 1915, Ogden and Mary Hammond travelled to Europe to aid in the Allied effort during World War I as passengers on the British ocean liner RMS Lusitania, which was sunk by German naval forces.
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