Sadie Hurst

Sadie Dotson Hurst (July 27, 1857 – January 17, 1952) was a US politician. Endorsed by the Nevada State Journal,[1] she was the first woman elected to the Nevada Legislature (R-Washoe).[2] When the legislature met in special session on February 7, 1919 to ratify the Federal Suffrage Amendment, it was Hurst, the assemblywoman from Reno, who presented the resolution. She had a further distinction of being the first woman to preside over a state Legislature during the ratification of the Federal Suffrage Amendment.[3] At the time, she was not only Nevada's first assemblywoman but also its only one, having been picked by the Women Citizens' Club of Reno, to bring women into the legislature.[3] She also was the member of the Nevada Legislature who presented the bill to raise the age of consent for girls from 16 to 18, a bill which passed both houses and was signed by the Governor.[3] Born in Iowa in 1857, Hurst died in Pasadena, California in 1952.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Moreno, Richard (1998). The Historical Nevada Magazine: Outstanding Historical Features from the Pages of Nevada Magazine. University of Nevada Press. pp. 120–. ISBN 978-1-890136-06-2.
  2. ↑ "Fact Sheet" (PDF). Nevada Legislative Counsel Bureau. November 2013. Retrieved 7 March 2014.
  3. 1 2 3 Blackwell, Alice Stone (1919). The Woman Citizen (Public domain ed.). Leslie Woman Suffrage Commission. pp. 797, 1009–.
  4. ↑ "Sadie Dotson Hurst (1857-1952)". National Women's History Museum. Retrieved 7 March 2014.
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