History of Woman Suffrage, Vol. VI

Rosa McKay's Campaign for State Assembly, 1916

McKay, Rosa

Rosa McKay was elected to the Arizona Assembly in 1916 and 1918. In 1920, she was one of the women in the Assembly who introduced the bill to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment. She introduced minimum wage legislation as well. Initially, she …

Bellamy, Mary Godat

Mary Godat Bellamy was the first woman elected to the Wyoming State Legislature in 1910. Bellamy was elected from Albany County and served a second term in 1918. She had worked as a school teacher and had run for County Superintendent of S…

Marsh, Theodora

In 1916 Theodora Marsh was elected from Santa Cruz County to the Arizona House of Representatives. She was a Democrat. In 1918, she introduced a "100% American" bill. She also sponsored child welfare legislation while in office. In her pri…

Nellie Viola Reames Hearn's Campaign for Treasurer, 1918

Sadie D. Hurst's Campaign for State House of Representatives, 1918

Morna A. Wood's Campaign for State House of Representatives or Assembly, 1914

Ada Wallace Unruh's Campaign for State House of Representatives or Assembly, 1918

Truax, Nettie

In 1912 Nettie Truax was elected from Crook-Campbell county to the Wyoming House of Representatives. She was a teacher and earlier had served as a county superintendent of Crook County in 1910. While in the legislature Truax was chair of t…

Wood, Morna A.

In 1914 Morna Wood, of Sundance, was elected to the Wyoming House of Representatives from Crook-Campbell county. She was active on behalf of children and their families. She successfully sponsored a law for the protection and regulation of…