Jane H. Todd

She was born on June 18, 1890, the daughter of John Claredon Todd (1857–1931) and Elizabeth Buchanan (Ten Broeck) Todd (1861–1907).

She became active in politics in Westchester County, first as a suffragette, and then in the Republican Party. She was a delegate to the 1932, 1936, 1940, 1944, 1952, 1956 and 1964 Republican National Conventions; and an alternate delegate to the 1948 and 1960 Republican National Conventions.

Jane Todd was a member of the New York State Assembly (Westchester Co., 4th D.) in 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939–40, 1941–42 and 1943–44. In 1936, she introduced a bill in the Legislature to create a three-day waiting period for marriages (a so-called gin marriage law).[https://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/12/nyregion/same-sex-couples-criticize-waiting-period-for-marriages.html When a Wait of One Day Feels Like One Too Long], by Thomas Kaplan, in the New York Times on July 11, 2011 [with a photo of Todd from 1939] She was Vice Chairwoman of the New York State Republican Committee from 1937 to 1959.

On June 7, 1945, she was appointed to the New York State Appeal Board on Job Insurance.[https://www.nytimes.com/1945/06/08/archives/new-post-for-jane-todd-dewey-appoints-her-to-appeal-board-on-job.html NEW POST FOR JANE TODD] in the New York Times on June 8, 1945 (subscription required) On June 21, 1945, she was appointed as Deputy New York State Commissioner of Commerce,[https://www.nytimes.com/1945/09/26/archives/womens-wages-increase-by-60-average-of-those-in-industry-gained.html WOMEN'S WAGES INCREASE BY 60%] in the New York Times on September 26, 1946 (subscription required) and remained in office until the end of Thomas E. Dewey's governorship in 1954.

In June 1959, she was again appointed as Deputy Commissioner of Commerce.[https://www.nytimes.com/1959/06/20/archives/gop-aide-in-state-job-miss-todd-gets-commerce-post-at-15426-a-year.html G.O.P. AIDE IN STATE JOB] in the New York Times on June 20, 1959 (subscription required)

She died on November 8, 1966, at her home at 169 Neperan Road in Tarrytown, New York;[https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FA0F16FC3F5F15738DDDA00894D9415B868AF1D3 JANE TODD DIES; G.O.P. LEADER, 76] in the New York Times on November 9, 1966 (subscription required) and was buried at the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Sleepy Hollow.

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• {{Find a Grave|64260922}}
• [http://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/collection/data/64072058 The Jane Hedges Todd papers] at the Cornell University Library

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