Martha Griffiths
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Martha Wright Griffiths was an American lawyer and judge before being elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1954. Griffiths was the first woman to serve on the House Committee on Wa
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Representative Martha Griffiths in 1970
Matilda Dodge Wilson
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Matilda Dodge Wilson was an American politician and heiress who was the 43rd lieutenant governor of Michigan. Ranked as one of the wealthiest women in the world, she was the widow of John Francis Dodg
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…discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. In 1982, Griffiths was also the first woman elected lieutenant governor of Michigan, as Matilda Dodge Wilson had been appointed the first female lieutenant governor of Michigan in 1939. Martha Edna Wright was born in Pierce City, Missouri. She attended public…
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