Sarah Blanche Hamblin (1873-1945):
Sarah Blanche Hamblin was elected to the city council of Kanab, Utah and served from 1912-1913. Hamblin served with the first woman mayor in Utah and an all woman council
Party Affiliation:
Unknown
Photographs:
Women of Kanab, Utah town council, Utah State Historical Society
Resources:
"Women in Office," by Jane Campbell National Municipal Review, Vol IV, NO. 2, April 1915, pp.211-216.
"Western women were in the thick of the suffrage movement," Eileen Hallett Stone, Salt Lake Tribune August 10, 2008 [on line]
"Kanab’s All Woman Town Council, 1912-1914: Politics, Power Struggles, and Polygamy," by Kylie Nielson Turley, Utah Historical Quarterly, Fall, 2005, Vol. 73, No. 4, pp. 308-328.