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.
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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.
May Tarbell Cannon Whitaker
American writer and civic leader
Mercedes R Cotner
Cleveland City Council clerk for more than 25 years, the first woman to fill that position.
Nettie Mackenzie Clapp
The first woman elected to the Ohio house of representatives from Cuyahoga County in 1922, two years after the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment.