Women in Politics

5. She was elected to the Utah State Senate, becoming the first woman state senator in the country.
7. She was a Republican from Montana became the first woman ever elected to Congress.
8. She became the first woman to fill a leadership position in a state legislature, serving as Secretary of the Colorado House Republican Caucus.
11. The first woman elected to statewide executive office in any state.
12. The first woman mayor in the country.
13. She was a Wyoming Democrat, she became the nation’s first woman governor.
14. She became the first woman ever to serve in a presidential cabinet.
15. Became the first town in the United States known to have an all-woman government.
16. She was elected Secretary of State in New Mexico, the first Latina and first woman of color to hold a statewide elected executive office.

1. She was a Georgia Democrat, became the first woman appointed to the Senate, but only served one day.
2. She became the first Black woman in a state legislature.
3. She was elected to the Michigan State House of Representatives, the first Native American woman in a state legislature.
4. The first woman to run for the US House of Representatives.
6. She was elected Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio, the first woman elected to the highest court in any state.
9. She ran for president of the US on the Equal Rights Party Ticket.
10. The first woman admitted to practice law before the U.S Supreme Court, ran for president on the Equal Rights Party Ticket.