Helen E McMillan
As a legislator, Helen E. McMillan served Mower County for twelve years. She was also involved in the Red Cross, the Women’s League of Voters, the Human Rights Commission, and the United Council for Church Women.
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Mazie Hirono
The first Asian American woman to be elected to the United States Senate.
Patricia Saiki
Pioneering two-term Republican Congresswoman from Hawai’i, 1987–91.
Doris Matsui
Member of U.S. House of Representatives representing the Sacramento, California, area since 2005.
Jean Sadako King
Lieutenant governor of Hawai’i, 1979–83.
Susie Williamson Stageberg
Susie Williamson Stageberg is known as the “Mother of the Farmer-Labor Party.” The Red Wing activist spent a lifetime fighting for unpopular political and social causes. She strongly opposed the merger of the Democratic and Farmer-Labor Parties in the 1940s.
Sue Metzger Dickey Hough
One of the first four women elected to the Minnesota legislature in 1922, Sue Metzger Dickey Hough campaigned for gun control, strict capital punishment, and mandatory automobile insurance, among other issues.
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.
Martha Dorsett
Martha Angle Dorsett is best known for being Minnesota’s first female lawyer. After being denied the right to practice law in Minnesota in 1876, she successfully petitioned the Minnesota legislature to change the state law governing attorney admissions. With the law amended to permit admission regardless of sex, Martha went on to practice law and remained active politically throughout the rest of her life in Minneapolis.
Mabeth Hurd Paige
In 1922, Mabeth Hurd Paige became one of the first four women to be elected to the Minnesota House of Representatives.