Lena Angevine Warner

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Lena Angevine Warner was born in Grenada, Mississippi in 1869 and died in 1948. [1] Her outstanding and notable career in public health and disease prevention spanned from 1889 until her retirement in 1946.[2] In addition to founding the Tennessee Nurses Association and the Tennessee Health Association, she was the state chairperson for the Red Cross Nursing Department from 1910 to 1932. Warner was the first and the only woman officer in the U.S. Army and chief executive nurse in Cuba during the Spanish-American War. She also designed the first official nurses uniform in the United States.[3]

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  3. ^ "Lena Angevine Warner". WKNO FM. 2014-01-31. Retrieved 2024-03-15.