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Fannie P. Goldsmith

American politician (died 1931)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionAug 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ140237735 ↗
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Fannie P. Goldsmith (died April 6, 1931) was an American politician who served in the Connecticut House of Representatives from January to April 1931, representing the town of Branford as a Republican. Goldsmith died of pneumonia at age 62, three months into her two-year term. Her death marked the first time a woman member of the Connecticut General Assembly had died while in office.

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Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1931—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Fannie, Goldsmith and American is the immediate research focus.
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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q140237735. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1931.

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This entry incorporates text from “Fannie P. Goldsmith” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.