THE SUFFRAGIST SENATOR Martha Hughes Cannon - a podcast by Dr. Katie Nelson and Olivia Meikle

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 …

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