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Helen Ring Robinson (1878–1923), was either the first〔 or the second〔 woman to serve as a state senator in the United States and the first in the Colorado State Senate. She was elected in 1913. ==Biography== She was born in 1878 in Eastport, Maine. She was elected to the Colorado State Senate for one four-year term in 1912, and took office in 1913. Among the progressive laws she passed were a minimum wage law for women and an abatement for property used for prostitution. Both were efforts to reduce prostitution. Women were not allowed to serve on juries at that time, though women received the vote in Colorado in 1893. All of Helen's bills on this issue failed. Consequently women could not serve on juries in the state until 1944. She died in 1923. Her body lay in state in the Capitol rotunda before her service. She was buried at Fairmount Cemetery in Denver. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Helen Ring Robinson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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