Trivia of the Month (Answer)...

This month’s question was who was the first woman appointed to a federal position that required Senate confirmation?  Julia Lathrop was appointed by President William Howard Taft to be chief of the newly created Children’s Bureau in 1912.  Succeeding President Woodrow Wilson reappointed her.

The question and its answer were found on p. 198 of Milestones: A Chronology of American Women’s History by Doris Weatherford.  The book was published by Facts on File in 1997.