) and a stint as Vermont's first female speaker of the house. Over the course of her impressive career, Northrop Bailey ran for public office a total of 24 times, winning every election she took part in, and ran a successful law firm, Bailey & Bailey, with her husband H. Albon Bailey.PhotoQuest / Getty Images- Political party: 149 Democratic, 223 Republican, 4 nonpartisan, 1 other party
- Level of government: 17 federal executive or Congress, 334 state legislature, 21 statewide executive, 0 D.C. or other territory legislatureEdith Green On Mother's Day 1958, Coya Knutson, the first congresswoman elected from the state of Minnesota, was the target of an incredibly sexist political attack: a letter published in." First published in a regional newspaper, the letter, which asked the congresswoman to abandon her plans of reelection in order to care for her family, spread quickly, ending up in papers around the nation.
- Level of government: 20 federal executive or Congress, 362 state legislature, 23 statewide executive, 0 D.C. or other territory legislature, a Black plantation worker from Mississippi, may have never held political office herself, but her activism made it possible for many of the other women on this list to do so.
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