When the new session of the North Dakota House of Representatives - TopicsExpress



          

When the new session of the North Dakota House of Representatives got together for their new session on December 3, 1933 they did something unprecedented—they elected a woman, Minnie D. Craig, as Speaker of the House. She became the first America woman to lead a state legislative body. Craig, just elected to her sixth term was the leader of the state Non-Partisan League, a populist/socialist alternative to both the Democratic and Republican Parties in state government that supported cooperative grain marketing, publicly owned utilities, and other moderate socialist policies.
Posted on: Sat, 03 Jan 2015 22:05:33 +0000

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