THE SUFFRAGETTE SENATOR Martha Hughes Cannon

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In 1896, Martha Hughes Cannon ran for state senate against her polygamist husband, and won! But becoming America’s first female state senator was only one chapter of Cannon’s story. A whirlwind of triumph and heartbreak dominated her life: wagon trains, Victorian medicine, the suffrage movement, evading federal prosecution, she lived it all! Our guest is Rebekah Clark, author of Thinking Women: A Timeline of Suffrage in Utah   Read Martha Hughes Cannon’s Speech to the … The post THE SUFFRAGETTE SENATOR Martha Hughes Cannon appeared first on What'shername.