Politics Archives - Page 4 of 60

Mary Farquharson

Activist, Washington state senator, and organizer of support committee for Gordon Hirabayashi during World War II.

Dorothy Hollingsworth

Dorothy Hollingsworth was the first Black woman in Washington to serve on a school board.

Arena always voiced pride in her Italian heritage and became a prominent figure in Sydney’s Italian community, working as a journalist on the Italian-language newspaper La Fiamma, and a broadcaster on ethnic community radio.

Cecile Hansen

Elected chair of the Duwamish since 1975

Patricia Roberts Harris

First African-American woman to serve as a US Ambassador

Alice Stopford Green

Irish historian and nationalist

Alice Glenn

Irish politician and moral crusader

Ina Higgins

Ina Higgins was one of the first women to enrol at the Burnley Horticultural College in Melbourne in 1899, receiving her Certificate of Competency in 1900. She subsequently had a lengthy career as a distinguished landscape gardener.

Dr Esther Clayson Pohl Lovejoy

Dr. Lovejoy was the first woman to direct a city department of health, the Portland Board of Health, in Oregon and was co-founder and first director of the Medical Women’s International Association.