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Originally posted by Thetagurl
Also we were the first to have a woman elected onto the senate.
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Which woman is that and is it state or US senator? These are a few that I found claiming to be the first female senator.
Elected State Senator
Martha Hughes Cannon, Utah, 1896
http://historytogo.utah.gov/mhcannon.html
Gladys Pyle, South Dakota, 1938, as first republican woman
http://epics.ecn.purdue.edu/iwt/pcik...uthdakota.html
Elected US Senator
Hattie Wyatt Caraway, Arkansas, 1932
http://dmla.clan.lib.nv.us/docs/nsla...yth/myth47.htm
Appointed US Senator (just thought that it was interesting because of the date)
Rebecca Latimer Felton, Georgia, 1922 (
www.gawomen.org/honorees/feltonr.htm)