Welfare Committee in 1938 when the secretary of labor, Frances Perkins, asked her. She also ran for the United States Congress for Brooklyn’s Eighth Congressional District this same year, with ALP, Republican Party, City Fusion Party, Progressive Party, and Fiorello La Guardia all supporting her. She lost the vote when incumbent Donald O’Toole discredited her to the public. She joined the Women’s Policy Committee of the War Manpower Commission during World War II. Bellanca became the first female vice president of the ACWA in 1934, and held that position until her death in 1946. She died on August 16, 1946, of multiple myeloma. References Further reading Jensen, Joan M. and Sue Davidson (1984). A needle, a bobbin, a strike: women needleworkers in America. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. "Dorothy Jacobs Bellanca." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2009. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 5 May. 2009 <http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/59742/Dorothy-Jacobs-Bellanca>. External links Tananbaum, Susan L. "Dorothy Jacobs Bellanca", Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia American women trade unionists American people of Latvian descent 1894 births 1946 deaths Deaths from multiple myeloma Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America people Deaths from cancer in the United States 20th-century American women 20th-century American people Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the United States