Agnes L. Riddle (18?-19?)
Riddle was a two-term member of the lower house of Colorado’s General Assembly. In 1916, as the nominee of the Republican Party, she became the second women elected to the Colorado Senate.
Party Affiliation:
Progressive; Republican
Photograph:
Resources:
Anne Firor Scott and Andrew MacKay Scott, One Half of the People: The Fight for Woman Suffrage, p. 140 [Google Books]
Doris Weatherford, Women’s Almanac 2002, p. 244 [Google Books]
Theodore Roosevelt Association, Biography of TR, “Theodore Roosevelt,” http://www.theodoreroosevelt.org/life/bullmoose.htm
Additional Notes:
Riddle was active in the Grange movement. In 1914, she ran as the Progressive Party nominee for Colorado Secretary of State. She was reported to have been an “ardent supporter of Mr. [Charles E.] Hughes” [for president in 1916]. In an interview she had “no kind words” for the Woman’s Party, saying, “I call it foolish…women spending their time doing spite work against a party or a candidate. She thought the party’s tactics were “just plain nagging,” and argued that for women to get anywhere politically, they must fight “definitely for a party or a policy – not merely destructively.” (Scott, One-Half of the People, p. 140).