Mabeth Hurd Paige

Mabeth Hurd Paige

Mabeth Hurd Paige, ca. 1925.

Mabeth Hurd Paige

Mabeth Hurd Paige

Mabeth Hurd Paige, ca. 1920. Photograph by Eugene G. Garrett.

Mabeth Hurd Paige

Mabeth Hurd Paige

Mabeth Hurd Paige, ca. 1919. Photograph by Sweet.

Mabeth Hurd Paige

Mabeth Hurd Paige

Mabeth Hurd Paige, ca. 1915.

Mabeth Hurd Paige

Mabeth Hurd Paige

Mabeth Hurd Paige, ca. 1912.

Mabeth Hurd Paige

Mabeth Hurd Paige

Mabeth Hurd Paige, ca. 1905.

Mabeth Hurd Paige

Mabeth Hurd Paige

Mabeth Hurd Paige, ca. 1895.

Mabeth Hurd

Mabeth Hurd

Mabeth Hurd (far left) with a man and a woman, possibly her sister and brother, ca. 1890.

Paige, Mabeth Hurd (1870–1961)

In 1922, Mabeth Hurd Paige became one of the first four women to be elected to the Minnesota House of Representatives. Before the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, she was a public speaker and an advocate for women’s suffrage and helped found the Minnesota branch of the League of Women Voters. Paige also studied both art and law, and was admitted to the bar. She was involved in charity and volunteer work that she continued until her death in 1961.

Hannah Kempfer with Mabeth Hurd Paige

Hannah Kempfer with Mabeth Hurd Paige

Minnesota Representative Hannah Kempfer (left) confers with Representative Mabeth Hurd Paige, 1941. Photo by the St. Paul Dispatch-Pioneer Press.

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