Library Research Guides: Women's Suffrage 100th Anniversary Exhibit: Four Women Elected to State Legislature

Four Women Elected to the Minnesota Legislature in 1922

In the first election after the passage of the 19th Amendment, four women won seats in the legislature.

Hannah Kempfer

Myrtle A. Cain

Sue Metzger Hough

Mabeth Hurd Paige

Mabeth Hurd Page (1870-1961)
Sue Metzger Dickey Hough (1882-1980)
Hannah Jensen Kempfer (1880-1943)
Myrtle A. Cain (1894-1980)

Image credits: Hannah Kempfer, por 26594 p3, Myrtle A. Cain, por 19342 p1, Mabeth Hurd Paige, por 11827 r1, courtesy of the Minnesota Historical Society, Sue Metzger Dickey Hough, 1926, courtesy Hennepin County Public Library. Other photos from the Minnesota Woman Suffrage Memorial