Jessie L. Simpson

Jessie L. Simpson (1882 — April 14, 1974) was a staff member in the United States Senate, appointed clerk of the Committee on Foreign Relations in 1916.

[1] Simpson worked in political campaigns for Jacob F. Wolters in Texas and for Champ Clark in St. Louis.

[2] She helped to run Democratic Western Headquarters in Chicago as secretary to Senator William J.

[6] Her salary of $3000 made her the second-highest-paid woman in the federal government, after Julia Lathrop, and the New York Times described her job as "the most responsible of all Senate clerkships.

"[1] In late 1917,[7] she joined the auditing office of the American Expeditionary Forces in France during World War I.