Signe Vessman

Signe Vessman (1879- 1953) was a Swedish politician (Social Democrat).[1]

Signe Vessman

She was born to the stonemason August Svensson and Maria Kristina Graaf. She married the bank clerk Johan Adolf Vessman (1877–1966) in 1914. Working as a seamstress, she became active in union work and engaged in the sociala democratic movement early on.

She was the chairperson of the Women's Trade Union in 1906-1908, ombudsman in the Tailor's Union 1909-1911; cashier for Morgonbris in 1911-1920 and its editor in 1920-1932. She was the chairperson of the Social Democratic Women in Sweden in 1920–1936, Socialist Women's Committee in 1923–1936, and MP of the andra kammaren of the Riksdag in 1925–1928.