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Sarah Anderson was elected to the Utah House of Representatives on the Democratic Party ticket in 1896 and served from 1897-1898. She represented Ogden, Weber County, the Fourth District. While in the legislature she chaired the Committee on Public Health and supported an act to teach school children the effects of drugs and alcohol. She died at the age of forty-seven. Anderson was a prominent citizen in Ogden and became even better known in 1895 when she attempted to register to vote as a challenge of the ambiguous language of the federal Enabling Act of 1894. Although she ultimately lost in court, action by the Utah state constitutional convention extended full suffrage to women.
Sarah Nelson married Dr. Porter L. Anderson at the age of seventeen and had five children. Dr. Anderson died in 1888; former Representative Anderson died in 1900.
Sarah Nelson married Dr. Porter L. Anderson at the age of seventeen and had five children. Dr. Anderson died in 1888; former Representative Anderson died in 1900.
