Margaret Collins-O’Driscoll
Irish teacher and politician
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Gwendolyn Mink
Gwendolyn Mink is an historical political scientist who has written about racism & nativism in US labor’s political formations at the turn of the 20th century; women & gender in 20th century US social policy history; and gender, race, and low income motherhood in the contemporary politics of poverty policy.
Lenora Fulani
In 1988 Fulani became the first woman and first African American to appear on the ballot in all fifty states and the District of Columbia. She won 225,000 votes, or 0.2% of the November 1988 total.
Romana Acosta Bañuelos
In 1970 President Richard Nixon picked Romana Acosta Bañuelos to the post of U.S. Treasurer, the first Latina in the position in U.S. history.
Soledad Chávez de Chacón
Chávez de Chacón was the first Latina elected to statewide office in the United States, and the first woman in the nation to win an election for that office. She would serve two terms as New Mexico Secretary of State through 1926 and in 1934 was elected to New Mexico’s House of Representatives, becoming the fourth Latina to hold that office.
Fanny Parnell
1800s Irish nationalist and poet
Martha McTier
1700s and 1800s Irish activist and writer
Marie Moore
20th century Irish republican activist
Eva Kelly
1800s Irish poet and nationalist
Maude Comstock Waitt
The first woman from Cuyahoga County to be elected to the Ohio Senate in 1922, two years after the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment.