[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Con. Res. 258 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. CON. RES. 258

 Expressing the sense of the United States Congress that the Citizen's 
  Stamp Advisory Committee of the United States Postal Service should 
  recommend to the Postmaster General that a postage stamp be issued 
  honoring America's first African-American professional nurse, Mary 
                             Eliza Mahoney.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 23, 1994

 Mr. Hilliard submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was 
       referred to the Committee on Post Office and Civil Service

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                         CONCURRENT RESOLUTION


 
 Expressing the sense of the United States Congress that the Citizen's 
  Stamp Advisory Committee of the United States Postal Service should 
  recommend to the Postmaster General that a postage stamp be issued 
  honoring America's first African-American professional nurse, Mary 
                             Eliza Mahoney.

Whereas the Citizen's Stamp Advisory Committee decides who may be honored by 
        having a stamp issued in their honor;
Whereas America's first professionally trained nurse graduated in 1873;
Whereas Mary Eliza Mahoney, who was born in 1845, graduated in 1879 from the New 
        England Hospital for Women and Children as America's first African-
        American professionally trained nurse;
Whereas, during her 40-year career, Mary Mahoney practiced nursing in New 
        Jersey, Massachusetts, Washington, DC, and North Carolina;
Whereas in 1936, due to her unstinting work in the field of nursing, the 
        National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses established the Mary 
        Mahoney Award; and
Whereas she has served as a role model for generations of young African-
        Americans who aspire to greatness: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), 
That it is the sense of the United States Congress that the Citizen's 
Stamp Advisory Committee of the United States Postal Service should 
recommend to the Postmaster General that a postage stamp be issued 
honoring nurse Mary Eliza Mahoney.

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