Harriot Daley
Harriot Daley was the first telephone switchboard operator at the United [States Capitol]. She was appointed as telephone switchboard operator at the Capitol in 1898.
Daley was born in Portsmouth, Virginia, the third of four children of David Jeremiah Godwin, a lawyer, judge, and Confederate Army colonel, and Lucrece Wilson.
In 2018 the New York Times published a belated obituary for her.