McColgin, Amelia Elizabeth Simison (1875-1972)

Bessie S. McColgin's Campaign for State House of Representatives or Assembly, 1920

McColgin, Bessie S.

In 1920, Republican candidate McColgin defeated an incumbent and was elected to the Oklahoma House of Representatives as the first woman to fill the position. While in office, she introduced a bill to create a Bureau of Child Hygiene, was …