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.

Legislative stationery and campaign cards of Hannah Kempfer

Legislative stationery and campaign cards of Hannah Kempfer

Legislative stationery and campaign cards of Hannah Kempfer, undated. Otter Tail County Historical Society, Fergus Falls.

Hannah Kempfer at the Minnesota Legislature

Hannah Kempfer at the Minnesota Legislature

Hannah Kempfer at the Minnesota Legislature, ca. 1920s. Otter Tail County Historical Society, Fergus Falls.

Charles Kempfer and Hannah Jensen Kempfer

Charles Kempfer and Hannah Jensen Kempfer

Wedding photo of Charles Kempfer and Hannah Jensen, 1903. Otter Tail County Historical Society, Fergus Falls.

Hannah Kempfer

Hannah Kempfer

Hannah Kempfer at work in the Minnesota Legislature, ca. 1930. From the Kempfer Collection, Otter Tail County Historical Society Archives, Fergus Falls.

Kempfer, Hannah Jensen (1880–1943)

Hannah Jensen Kempfer was the first woman from rural Minnesota elected to the state legislature. She brought her personal knowledge of farming, education, child welfare, business, and natural resources to the House, serving nine terms in the Minnesota legislature between 1922 and 1942.

Myrtle Cain with O. W. Behrues, Mike E. Collins, and Floyd B. Olson

Myrtle Cain with O. W. Behrues, Mike E. Collins, and Floyd B. Olson

Myrtle Cain with O. W. Behrues, Mike E. Collins, and Floyd B. Olson (MInnesota's twenty-second governor), ca. 1934.

Congressional voting card

Congressional voting card

A card documenting an interview Myrtle Cain conducted to test support for the Equal Rights Amendment, ca. 1928. Congressional voting card collection, National Woman’s Party.

Myrtle Cain greets fellow legislators

Myrtle Cain greets fellow legislators

Myrtle Cain greets fellow legislators in Washington, DC, 1924. LC-H234- A-8105 [Prints and Photographs], Harris & Ewing photograph collection.

Myrtle Cain

Myrtle Cain

Legislator Myrtle Cain arrives in Washington, DC, to promote her equal rights bill, 1924. LC-H234- A-8103 [Prints and Photographs], Harris & Ewing photograph collection.

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