Veronica Grace Boland (March 18 1899 – June 19 1982) was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania and the first female member of Congress from Pennsylvania.Veronica Grace Barrett was born in Scranton Pennsylvania. She married Patrick J. Boland. She was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-seventh Congress by special election to fill the vacancy caused by the death of her husband. She was not a candidate for reelection in 1942.
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