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Clara Cressingham
Clara Cressingham (1863-)〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://digital.denverlibrary.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p16079coll14/id/3578/rec/2 )〕 was one of the first women elected to serve in any state legislature in the United States. She was also the first woman to serve in a leadership position in any state legislature.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.leg.state.co.us/lcs/leghist.nsf/736b5262efff1c5087257751006d4155/5cdf230fa724bdc1872578e2005d54ab?OpenDocument&Highlight=0,clara )〕
==Legislative career==
Colorado became the first state in which women obtained the right to vote, through popular election in 1893.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.colorado.gov/dpa/doit/archives/digital/suffrage.htm )〕 The following year, on November 6, 1894, three women were elected to serve in the Colorado House of Representatives. Besides Cressingham, they included Carrie C. Holly and Frances S. Klock.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.ncsl.org/legislatures-elections/wln/first-women-in-state-legislatures.aspx )〕 All three were Republicans and were sworn into office in 1895. Each served one term, from 1895 to 1896.〔
At 32 years old, Clara Cressingham was the youngest of these three legislators. After she and her husband had moved from New York, she was employed as a writer, and she was the mother of two children when elected to the Colorado General Assembly.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://sites.google.com/site/coloradowomenscaucus/home/history-of-women-in-colorado-s-legislature/women-who-served-in-the-colorado-legislature/clara-cressingham )〕 As Secretary of the House Republican Caucus, Cressingham was the first woman to fill a leadership position in an American legislature.
Cressingham is credited with introducing the first law introduced by a woman in the United States. It set a government–provided bounty of $3 per ton on sugar beets raised in the state and sold to a factory within its borders, thus boosting the budding Colorado sugar beet industry.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.nwhm.org/online-exhibits/legislators/Colorado.html )〕 Other bills she introduced during her two years in the House addressed the creation of a state board of arbitration and a system of free schools. Along with the other two women in the legislature, she successfully supported a bill to create homes for delinquent girls.〔
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