[First Woman Pres. of APA?]

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Who was the first woman to be elected president of the American Psychological Association and in what year was she elected?

-- Laura Ross Longerbeam (laura9376@aol.com), August 27, 2001

Answers

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Mary Whiton Calkins. 1905. She would later be the first woman president of the American Philosophical Association as well.

-- Christopher Green (christo@yorku.ca), September 04, 2001.

You can read more about Mary Calkins by going to http:// www.webster.edu/~woolflm/women.html

-- Linda M. Woolf, Ph.D. (woolflm@webster.edu), December 06, 2001.

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