Physician, plural wife, state senator
Martha Hughes Cannon
1857–1932
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Utah Polygamy and the Manifesto
Physician, plural wife, state senator
A trained physician and fourth wife of Salt Lake Stake president Angus M. Cannon, she spent years in exile in England and Michigan to keep out of federal reach. In 1896 she ran for the Utah Senate as a Democrat against a Republican slate that included her own husband, beat him, and became the first woman state senator in the United States. Her letters record both the exile and the marriage's collapse.
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Martha Hughes Cannon elected to the Utah Senate
Running as a Democrat against a Republican slate that included her husband Angus M. Cannon, she outpolled him and became the first woman state senator in the United States. Two women were elected to the state house and eleven more to county offices the same day.
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