Born: 15 January 1887, United States
Died: 7 April 1976
Country most active: United States
Also known as: Betty Eyre
American actress, suffragist and Colorado state legislator Elizabeth Eyre Pellet represented the southern Colorado counties of Dolores, Montezuma, and San Miguel in the Colorado House of Representatives from 1948 to 1964. She was the first woman to serve as House minority leader, from 1955 to 1956, as well as the first woman in the U.S. to hold a major legislative leadership position and first woman in Colorado to run for Congress. After acting on Broadway and in a silent film, The Plunderer (1915) and marching as a suffragist in New York, she and her husband moved to Colorado, where they operated mines in Rico and Pellet was elected to the local school board. Her autobiography, That Pellet Woman!, was published in 1965. Pellet was inducted into the Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame in 2016.
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