Brown, Margaret Tobin

Margaret Tobin Brown (aka as Molly Brown and the Unsinkable Molly Brown) campaigned for the state senate in Colorago in 1901. She withdrew from the race before election day, perhaps due to family concerns. Brown and her husband had grown wealthy in the mining industry in Colorado. Margaret Brown turned her attention to progressive reforms in Denver from the 1890s onward. After 1914 Brown worked on the national level with various suffrage leaders, becoming increasingly attracted to the more radical elements of the movement. That year Brown campaigned for the U.S. Senate from Colorado. Brown is best remembered today as a survivor of the Titanic disaster, and as a "feisty" inspiration for the musical "The Unsinkable Molly Brown".