became the first woman to serve as acting governor of a U.S. state; she performed the duties as governor of Oregon just over the weekend in absence of both outgoing and incoming full-time governor. 1910s 1910 Alice Stebbins Wells was the first American-born woman sworn in as a police officer, which she did at Los Angeles Police Department. Florence Lawrence was America's first movie star. 1911 Harriet Quimby was the first woman licensed as an airplane pilot in America. Clara Elizabeth Chan Lee was the first Chinese American woman to register to vote in the United States; she registered to vote on November 8, 1911 in California following the passage of 1911 California Proposition 4, nine years before the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. 1912 Girl Guides of America (now Girl Scouts of the USA) was established as the first voluntary organization for girls. 1914 Caresse Crosby was the first woman to patent a brassiere. 1916 Margaret Sanger opened the first birth control clinic in the United States. November 7 - Jeannette Rankin became the first woman elected to a national office; she represented Montana as the first woman in the U.S. House of Representatives or either chamber of U.S. Congress. 1917 Loretta Perfectus Walsh was the first woman to enlist in the United States Navy. 1918 Annette Abbott Adams was the first woman to serve as Assistant Attorney General, "...the highest judicial position any woman in the world had ever held". Opha May Johnson was the first woman to enlist in the United States Marines. Twin sisters Genevieve and Lucille Baker of the Naval Coastal Defense Reserve were the first uniformed women to serve in the United States Coast Guard. Sara Teasdale was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (for her collection Love Songs) 1920s 1920 Marie Luhring was the first woman in America to become an automotive engineer. 1921 Edith Wharton was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (for her novel The Age of Innocence). Margaret Gorman was the first winner of Miss America beauty pageant.Lurie, Maxine N., and Marc Mappen (2004). Encyclopedia of New Jersey. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press. June 20 - Alice Mary Robertson became the first woman to preside over the U.S. House of Representatives or either chamber of U.S. Congress; however, she was opposed to women's suffrage. Zona Gale