Lillian Gordy Carter Nursing in honor of the work she did in India. The Atlanta Regional Office of the Peace Corps has named an award in her honor for volunteers over 50 who make the biggest contribution. When Jimmy Carter decided to run for president, his mother was one of the first people he told. He was initially regarded as a dark horse candidate for the Democratic Party nomination. Lillian Carter was well known as "Miss Lillian" and she published two books during his Presidency, "Miss Lillian and Friends" and "Away from Home: Letters to my Family", both published in 1977. The latter
Lillian Feickert Lillian Feickert Lillian Ford Feickert (July 20, 1877 – January 21, 1945) was an American suffragette, New Jersey state political organizer, and the first woman from New Jersey to run for United States Senate. She served as the President of the New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association from 1912 to 1920, and later helped organize the New Jersey League of Women Voters. She went on to serve as the Vice-Chairman of the New Jersey Republican State Committee and unsuccessfully ran for the US Senate in 1928. Lillian Ford was born on July 20, 1877 in Brooklyn, New York. She was the