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Kate Barnard was an Oklahoma welfare leader and the first woman to hold statewide elective office in the United States. Barnard began her public career as an officer of the Provident Association, an Oklahoma benevolent organization.
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- Women in office: 193 - Political party: 77 Democratic, 109 Republican, 5 nonpartisan, 2 other party - Level of government: 8 federal executive or Congress, 171 state legislature, 14 statewide executive, 0 D.C. or other territory legislature Hattie Wyatt Caraway became the first womanto be elected to a full term in the United States Senate in 1932...
- Women in office: 187 - Political party: 99 Democratic, 81 Republican, 4 nonpartisan, 3 other party - Level of government: 12 federal executive or Congress, 161 state legislature, 14 statewide executive, 0 D.C. or other territory legislature From her political beginnings as an executive secretary for the New York City Committee on Safety to her bi...
- Women in office: 182 - Political party: 98 Democratic, 77 Republican, 4 nonpartisan, 3 other party - Level of government: 8 federal executive or Congress, 160 state legislature, 14 statewide executive, 0 D.C. or other territory legislature Perkins was joined by another woman, Josephine Roche, in 1934, when FDR appointed the latter as the Assistan...
- Women in office: 188 - Political party: 111 Democratic, 73 Republican, 3 nonpartisan, 1 other party - Level of government: 7 federal executive or Congress, 170 state legislature, 11 statewide executive, 0 D.C. or other territory legislature Florence Prag Kahn, the first Jewish American woman to hold a seat in Congress, also held firmly to the bel...
- Women in office: 188 - Political party: 111 Democratic, 73 Republican, 3 nonpartisan, 1 other party - Level of government: 8 federal executive or Congress, 170 state legislature, 10 statewide executive, 0 D.C. or other territory legislature In the '20s and '30s, many women first held political office not through their own merits, but through a ph...
- Women in office: 195 - Political party: 110 Democratic, 82 Republican, 3 nonpartisan, 0 other party - Level of government: 7 federal executive or Congress, 177 state legislature, 11 statewide executive, 0 D.C. or other territory legislature In 1937, Dixie Bibb Graves became the first female senator in Alabama when her husband, Governor Bibb Grave...
- Women in office: 197 - Political party: 112 Democratic, 82 Republican, 3 nonpartisan, 0 other party - Level of government: 9 federal executive or Congress, 177 state legislature, 11 statewide executive, 0 D.C. or other territory legislature A former public school teacher, Crystal Bird Fausetbecame the first African American woman to serve as a st...
- Women in office: 201 - Political party: 92 Democratic, 104 Republican, 4 nonpartisan, 1 other party - Level of government: 6 federal executive or Congress, 181 state legislature, 14 statewide executive, 0 D.C. or other territory legislature Gladys Pyle, the daughter of a suffragist, became the first Republican woman to hold a seat in the U.S. Sen...
- Women in office: 212 - Political party: 97 Democratic, 110 Republican, 4 nonpartisan, 1 other party - Level of government: 9 federal executive or Congress, 188 state legislature, 15 statewide executive, 0 D.C. or other territory legislature Perhaps one of the wealthiest women to ever hold political office, Frances Payne Boltonwas, at one point, t...
- Women in office: 205 - Political party: 103 Democratic, 100 Republican, 2 nonpartisan, 0 other party - Level of government: 9 federal executive or Congress, 181 state legislature, 15 statewide executive, 0 D.C. or other territory legislature A look back at women in American politics would not be complete without a mention of Jeannette Rankin. In ...
The first woman to hold the position of finance minister was Varvara Yakovleva, the People's Commissar for Finance of the Soviet Union from 1930 to 1937. Frances Perkins, Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945, was the first woman to hold a cabinet position in the United States federal government.
Soledad Chacon defied odds when she became the first woman of color elected to statewide office in the United States as Secretary of State of New Mexico only two years after the 19th Amendment secured women the right to vote. Chacon served in this position from 1923 to 1926.
From Laura Eisenhuth, the first female elected to statewide executive office in 1892, to Sandra Day O’Connor, the first female U.S. Supreme Court Justice, these women aimed for something that society was telling them was impossible, just because they were women.
The first woman to ever hold a major statewide office was Soledad C. Chacon (D-New Mexico) who was secretary of state in New Mexico from 1923-26; 4 Delaware, Kentucky, New York, South Dakota and Texas also had women secretaries of state in the 1920s.
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May 10, 2017 · In 1892, Eisenhuth became the first female to hold a statewide executive office when she was elected as the Superintendent of Public Instruction in North Dakota. In case you didn’t know, it’s still tough to get into a chief administrative officer position.
