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Show FIRST WOMAN TO SIT IN A STATE SENATE -mm Dr. Martha Hughes Cannon. Dr. Martha Hughes Cannon of Salt Lake City, the first woman elected to the state senate of any commonwealth common-wealth in the United States, still takes great interest in public affairs, af-fairs, and lias been particularly interested in-terested by newspaper accounts in which the honor of first becoming a womart state senator was accredited to Mrs Helen Ring Robinson of Colorado, a member of the last legislature legis-lature of the Centennial state. Dr. Cannon was elected to th Utah state senate in 1906. |