Evangeline Heartz (1849-?):
Evangeline Heartz served at least three times, as member of the Colorado House of Representatives from Denver. She was first elected to serve from1897-98, Heartz was a supporter of labor unions and introduced a bill providing for compulsory arbitration in labor disputes. While not active with suffragist organizations in CO, Heartz supported women’s right to vote. Heartz was Chairman of the Committee on Enrollments, and Member of the Committees on Appropriations and Expenditures, Education, State Institutions, Temperance, and Public Health. Heartz was also the first woman Speaker of the House [CO].
Party Affiliation:
Populist (1897, 1901 races); Democrat (1915, 1917 races)
Photographs:
Portrait of Heartz included in:
Pictorial Roster Twentieth General Assembly
http://www.genealogybug.net/colorado/083.htm
Resources:
The New Womanhood, by Winnifred Harper Cooley p. 129
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/naw:@field(DOCID+@lit(rbnawsan7023div15)) [Library of Congress, Votes for Women: Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921, web site]
Women State and Territorial Legislators, 1895-1995: A State by State Analysis, with Rosters of 6,000 Women, by Elizabeth M. Cox, Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., 1996.