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Reba Hurn
Reba (Rebecca Jane) Hurn (1881–1967) was the first woman elected to the Washington State Senate, serving from 1923 to 1930. Before launching her legal and political careers, she pursued graduate work at Heidelberg University in Germany, then worked for New York philanthropist and political activist Nathan Straus, who became her mentor. Her assistance with Straus’s Democratic Party activities provided Hurn with first-hand political experience long before she ran for office as a Republican in 1922. As the lone woman in the state senate, she at first attracted press attention more as a novelty than as the serious legislator that she soon became. After two terms in office, she returned to her law practice in Spokane, remained active in public affairs, and was a world traveler of unusual perception and daring.
==Early life==
Reba Hurn was born in Clear Lake, Iowa, in 1881, the older of two sisters. Her father, David William Hurn, was a prominent lawyer, judge, banker, newspaperman and mayor of Clear Lake. In 1905 the family moved to Spokane, where David Hurn continued practicing law and eventually became a judge.
Reba received her undergraduate degree at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, where she won a Phi Beta Kappa key. She taught school for a rather unhappy two years in Spokane and Ritzville. Convinced that, as a woman, teaching was the only profession open to her, she left for Germany in the summer of 1907 for graduate study at University of Heidelberg in order to enhance her chances of teaching German in Spokane.
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