Category Archives: Law

The daughter of working–class immigrants, Democrat Lynn Schenk won a hotly contested election in a majority Republican district to become the first woman to represent San Diego, California, in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Dewald was, for many years, the highest-ranking woman in Cleveland, Ohio’s city government.

During her brief U.S. House of Representatives term, Helen Douglas Mankin of Georgia brought national attention to her longtime political cause: advocating on behalf of poor and disenfranchised southern voters.

Despite a late start in politics and competing in a field dominated by men at the time, Jeannette C. Hayner became one of Washington’s most powerful state legislators.