Maggie Smith Hathaway(1867-1955):
In 1894 Maggie Smith Hathaway was elected school superintendent in Helena, Montana. She was the first woman elected to the Montana state legislature, representing Ravalli, in 1916.. She served for two terms, serving until 1922. Hathaway was originally from Ohio, but moved to Montana in the 1890s. She was an educator, and had taught school in both Ohio and Montana. Hathaway worked on the Montana suffrage campaign in 1914. While in the legislature Hathaway supported prohibition, labor rights, and the rights of women and mothers. In the early 1920s she served as the secretary of the of the Bureau of Child and
Animal Protection.
Party Affliation:
Unknown (1894); Democrat (1916)
Photograph:
"The Varied Interests of a Woman Legislator," The Woman Citizen, May 11, 1918, pp. 470-471.
Resources:
"The Varied Interests of a Woman Legislator," The Woman Citizen, May 11, 1918, pp. 470-471.
History of Woman Suffrage, ed. Ida Husted Harper, National American Woman Suffrage Association, Vol. VI, p. 367.
Maggie and Montana;: The story of Maggie Smith Hathaway, by Harold Tascher, New York : Exposition Press, 1954.
Maggie Smith Hathawa [pdf file of that title on World Wide Web]