Simpson worked in political campaigns for Jacob F. Wolters in Texas and for Champ Clark in St. Louis . She attended the 1912 Democratic National Convention in Baltimore , Maryland . She helped to run Democratic Western Headquarters in Chicago as secretary to Senator William J. Stone . In 1916 , Simpson was appointed as clerk to the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations , becoming the second woman , after Leona Wells in 1901 , to serve as secretary of any Senate committee , and thus gain " privileges of the floor " . 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 . " In late 1917 , she joined the auditing office of the American Expeditionary Forces in France during World War I . After the war , she was secretary to Senator Robert A. Taft
1912 Democratic National Convention
1912 Democratic National Convention
Jessie L. Simpson