Draft:Women legislators in Mississippi
Women who served as state legislators in Mississippi include:
- Belle Kearney was elected to the Senate in 1922.
- Mildred Alexander (Mrs. Paul C. Cato)
- Margaret Allen
- Anne Virginia Barclift (Mrs. Charles Folson)
- Georgia Roberta Mauldin Bennett
- Annie Bonds
- Mabel Wilson Bruce
- Matilda "Tillie" Floyd Tann Clark
- Pauline Alston Clark (Mrs. Walter Clark)
- Willie Mae Dunaway (Mrs. Norman Adams)
- Orene Farese (1956-1958)
- Thelma W. Farr (Mrs. James Edward Baxter)
- Madge Quin Fugler, represented Pike County, Mississippi from 1932-1936 in the Mississippi House of Representatives.[1]
- Edythe Evelyn Gandy, served as Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi from 1976 to 1980
- Mary Lou Godbold (Mrs. Tillman H. Godbold)
- Lovie Landrum Gore (1952-1960)
- Otelia Hammond
- Ella Duke Harris (Mrs. L. G. Dean)
- Lucy R. Somerville Howorth
- Carrie Belle Kearney
- Betty Jane Long
- Helen Jacobs McDade
- Mary Magruder McGehee
- Zilpha Ellis Mansell /Zilpha Huber[2] (Mrs. Charlie Mansell then Mrs. Harry Huber),
- Jean Denman Muirhead
- Mary Mildred Jeffries Nail (Miss Tumpsie)
- Kathleen Michael O'Fallon
- Alice Clayton Snider Phillips
- Zelma Wells Price
- Jessie Lee Reese
- Minnie Lou Robinson (Mrs. John Bole Robinson)
- Gladys Miller Slayden
- Wilma Bobo Sledge (Wilma Bobo Sledge Maxey)
- Nellie Nugent Somerville, first woman to serve in Mississippi's legislature
- Dovie Pearl High Stansel, succeeded her husband Horace Stansel
- Louise Steadman
- Mary Ann Stevens
- Mary Frances Terry
- Mildred Spurrier Topp
- Mynelle McClurg Vaiden, wife of state rep. and member of prominent family[3]
- Berta Lee White
- Martha Carole White
- Neita Winn McCargo (1946-1948)
- Ellen Sullivan Woodward
- Barbara Yancy.[4]
- Willie Mae Dunaway (1951-1952), succeeded her deceased husband Hezzie Dunaway?
- Otelia Hammond (1961-1964) Otelia Bracey Hammond. Appears to have succeeded her husband Kelly J. Hammond after his death[5][6]
- Louise Steadman (1966-1968)[7][8]
References[edit]
- ^ Madge Quin Fugler
- ^ https://www.newspapers.com/article/clarion-ledger-obituary-for-zilpha-ellis/57245051/
- ^ https://www.newspapers.com/article/clarion-ledger/35247082/
- ^ "mpc_MIS00042645". collections.msdiglib.org Women of the Mississippi Legislature.
- ^ https://www.newspapers.com/article/columbian-progress-columbian-progress/31984005/
- ^ https://www.newspapers.com/article/columbian-progress-kelly-j-hammond/16241164/
- ^ "The Journal of Mississippi History". Mississippi Department of Archives and History. December 10, 1981 – via Google Books.
- ^ collections.msdiglib.org/digital/collection/mpc/id/111/