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Before women were allowed to vote, two were the first to be elected to state Legislature
It was a first for Oklahoma, but doubly so, when the first women were elected to serve in the 1920-22 Legislature. Bessie Simison McColgin was the first woman elected to the Oklahoma House of ...
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Before women were allowed to vote, two were the first to be elected to state Legislature
McColgin, who was born in Kansas, was a pioneer who had lived in Oklahoma six years before statehood and was from the community of Ridgeton in Roger Mills County. It was in that county she served as a ...