Sarah Lee Fain
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Sarah Lee Odend'hal Fain was a Virginia schoolteacher and Democratic politician who became one of the earliest female members of the Virginia General Assembly and later assisted with New Deal reforms
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Helen Ruth Henderson
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Helen Ruth Henderson was a Virginia schoolteacher and politician. The daughter of Helen Timmons Henderson, she was elected to her mother's old seat in the Virginia House of Delegates, entering in 1928
Sarah Lee Fain
…which she had been a member from her first term. During this session she served with three other women, Sallie C. Booker, Nancy Melvina Caldwell, and Helen Ruth Henderson; the latter, elected in 1927, was the daughter of her former colleague. Rather than seek a fourth term in 1929, Fain chose to run for a seat in the…
Henderson's grave in Westview Cemetery