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Mabel Gillespie (October 13, 1894 – November 1982) was a farmer, teacher, journalist, and politician in Nebraska. In 1925, she was the first woman to be elected as a Nebraska state legislator when she served the first of her six terms. She was the first female reporter in Nebraska to work the general news beat, working for the Omaha Bee from 1916 to 1919. She had three failed campaigns for congress and served on the platform committee at the Democratic National Convention in 1940. ==Life== Mabel Gillespie was born October 13, 1894 in Ord, Nebraska to Hjalmar and Catheryn (Jensen) Gudmundsen, both born in Denmark.〔''Nebraskana''. Edited by Sara Mullin Baldwin and Robert Morton Baldwin, The Baldwin Company, Hebron, Nebraska, 1932〕 Hjalmar was born at Nysted, Denmark and served in the US Army on the frontier during the Indian Wars and was captain of Company I, Nebraska Volunteer Cavalry in the Spanish–American War.〔 In Nebraska he worked as a very successful lawyer in Valley County, Nebraska and before that a judge in the eleventh judicial district of Nebraska for 21 years.〔 Unlike his daughter, he was a Republican.〔 His ancestors were Icelandic and Danish and both of his grandfathers were orators and statesmen.〔 Mabel had three brothers and four sisters.〔 Mabel Cillespie attended school at Ord and Superior, graduating from high school at Superior.〔 She graduated also from the Kearney State Teachers' College in 1915,〔 where she was also an assistant instructor in psychology and in the English department.〔 She also taught briefly in Lexington and at Gretna High School.〔 She studied law at the Omaha Law School.〔"Honeymoon Trip for Mrs. Gillespie". ''Omaha World Herald'', March 4, 1958, page 8〕 and at Creighton University while living in Omaha in the 1910s.〔 She was married to William C. Gillespie at Omaha, on January 22, 1919 while she was living in Omaha and the pair moved to his parents farm where she lived during her career in the state legislature.〔Griswold, Gerard Cobern, "A Lone Woman Legislator", ''Omaha World Herald'', December 2, 1928, page 57〕 The farm was very traditional and had no electricity as late as 1928.〔 After her first husband died, she married John A Arehart on February 20, 1958 and moved to his home in Lowell, Michigan. John died in 1967, and she moved back to Omaha.〔"Mabel Gellespie Arehart Dies at 88; 1st Woman Elected to Legislature". ''Omaha World Herald'', November 26, 1982, page 4〕 Mabel Gillespie died in Omaha in November 1982. 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「Mabel Gillespie」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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