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Frances "Fannie" Munds was elected, on the Democratic ticket, to the Arizona state senate, serving from 1915 to 1917. She was a member of the Education and the Land Committees. She elected not to run for that office again but in 1918 ran unsuccessfully for Arizona secretary of state. Munds came from a family of ranchers. She was sent east to school and later taught school. In 1890 she married John Lee Munds, who served as a sheriff. They had a son and two daughters. Munds was a suffrage activist. Working with the Arizona suffrage association, she reached out to Mormon women which other suffrage leaders in her state had not done. She lobbied the legislature before her election on women's issues.
