Lucy Somerville Howorth
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Lucy Somerville Howorth was an American lawyer, feminist and politician. On August 18, 1917, in the State Capitol gallery in Nashville, Tennessee, she witnessed the Nineteenth Amendment to the United
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Nellie Nugent Somerville
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Eleanor Nugent Somerville was the first woman elected to the Mississippi Legislature. Her daughter, Lucy Somerville Howorth, was soon elected to that body as well, and the two became the second mother
Lucy Somerville Howorth
…Representatives from 1932-1936. She worked on New Deal legislation. Lucy Somerville was born on July 1, 1895, in Greenville, Mississippi. The daughter of Nellie Nugent Somerville, nationally known as a temperance and woman suffrage leader and the first woman to serve in the Mississippi Legislature, she was raised in an atmosphere…
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