Petitioners with representatives of the Minnesota Humane Education Society in district court. Pictured are (left to right): Anna D. Massie, Earl J. Lyons (attorney), Sue Dickey Hough, Josiah Chase (attorney), and Fay Porter, 1938. Photo by the Minneapolis Tribune, published on Mary 17, 1938. Minneapolis Newspaper Photograph Collection, Hennepin County Library, Minneapolis.

John C. Sweet, Republican Senator and lawyer from Minneapolis (shown here in 1923), was Sue M. Dickey Hough’s sharpest critic on the issue of capital punishment, engaging in heated arguments with her. From The Legislative Manual of the State of Minnesota (St. Paul: N.p., 1923).

Sue M. Dickey Hough, 1923. From The Legislative Manual of the State of Minnesota (St. Paul: N.p., 1923).

State representatives Sue M. Dickey Hough (left) and Myrtle Cain, 1923. Photo by Marvin Ferree.

Group photo of the first four women state legislators in Minnesota (left to right): Mabeth Hurd Paige, Sue M. Dickey Hough, Myrtle Cain, and Hannah Kempfer. Minneapolis Sunday Tribune, April 22, 1923. Accessed on microfilm at the Minnesota Historical Society.

1922 campaign ad for Sue M. Dickey Hough for Minnesota state representative. Minneapolis Morning Tribune, November 6, 1922. Accessed on microfilm at the Minnesota Historical Society.

Sue M. Dickey Hough, ca. 1912.

Sue Dickey, ca. 1885.

Sue M. Dickey Hough, one of the first women elected to the Minnesota Legislature. Photo by the Star and Tribune Company, 1926. Minneapolis Newspaper Photograph Collection, Hennepin County Library, Minneapolis.

Members of the Minnesota Association of the Deaf gather at the Minnesota Institute for Defectives (Deaf, Blind and Feeble-minded) in Faribault during their fourth convention, June 23–26, 1896. Photograph by Jean Baptiste Aristas Benoit.