Josephine roche biography
Josephine roche biography
Josephine roche biography1.
Roche, Josephine (1886–1976)
American labor leader and U.S. Treasury official. Born Josephine Aspinwall Roche in Neligh, Nebraska, on December 2, 1886; died in Bethesda, Maryland, on July 13, 1976; daughter of John J.
Roche (a mine owner) and Ella (Aspinwall) Roche; Vassar College, B.A., 1908; Columbia University, M.S.W., 1910; married Edward Hale Bierstadt (a broadcast writer), on July 2, 1920 (divorced 1922); no children.
Became first woman police officer in Denver, Colorado (1912); operated the Rocky Mountain Fuel Company, the second largest coal mining company in Colorado (1927–39); first woman to serve as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, under President Franklin Roosevelt (1934–37); named one of ten outstanding women in the United States (1936); organized and ran the United Mine Workers' welfare and retirement fund (1947–71).
Josephine Roche was born in Neligh, Nebraska, on December 2, 1886, a child of privilege as the daughter of millionaire