Myrtle Cain
Known as the “flapper legislator,” Myrtle Agnes Cain was a lifelong women’s rights activist and labor organizer. When she was elected to the Minnesota House in 1922, she and three other women became the state’s first female legislators.
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Mabeth Hurd Paige
In 1922, Mabeth Hurd Paige became one of the first four women to be elected to the Minnesota House of Representatives.
Anna Dickie Olesen
The first female nominee of a major party for the US Senate, Anna Dickie Olesen was a celebrated orator and passionate social reformer who became one of the most prominent Democratic women of the early twentieth century.
Bertha Berglin Moller
Bertha Berglin Moller (Delin), jailed twice in Washington, DC, for leading a hunger strike, was one of Minnesota’s most passionate and fiery woman suffragists.
Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark Van Cleve
Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark Van Cleve was the child of a military family and a crusader for the rights of disadvantaged people in Minnesota and beyond. Born during her parents’ journey to help build the future Fort Snelling, she lived to see a fledgling community grow into an urban center.
Clara Ueland
Clara Ueland was a lifelong women’s rights activist and prominent Minnesotan suffragist.
Betty Connolly
Betty Connolly was a working class suffragist from Newton Highlands, Massachusetts who was affiliated with the National Woman’s Party.
Edith Ainge
Treasurer and National Council member for the National Woman’s Party
Emily DuBois Butterworth
American suffragist and sculptor
Jessica Cox Henderson
State Secretary of the National Woman’s Party for Massachusetts, Secretary of the Citizens’ National Sacco and Vanzetti Committee