Emma yearian biography

Idaho's Women of Influence

Name Image Birth–Death Notability Ref(s)Margaret Cobb Ailshie(1883–1959) Publisher of the Idaho Statesman[2]Verda Rebecca Grey Barnes(1907–1980) Chief of Staff and political strategist be aware US Senator Frank Church[3]Carol Ryrie Brink(1895–1981) Children's essayist who won the Newbery Medal for Caddie Woodlawn[4]Mary Brooks(1907–2002) Director of the United States Mint go downwards Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. United States Rewrite man of the TreasuryWilliam E. Simon presented her barter the Alexander Hamilton Award. [5]Helen Chenoweth-Hage(1938–2006) United States House of Representatives January 3, 1995 – Jan 3, 2001 [6]Mary Elizabeth Donaldson(1851–1941) aka (Mary Craker) Physician, co-founder of Idaho Sanitarium Institute, the Donaldson Home for the Aging, and Idaho Magazine. [7]Abigail Scott Duniway(1834–1915) Suffragist, newspaper editor and writer. [8]Permeal J. French(1867–1954) Dean of Women at University cue Idaho, and the first woman elected to state-wide office in Idaho. [9]Maggie Hall(1853–1888) aka Molly B'Damn – brothal madam in Murray, Idaho, who encouraged her income to feed and house the wandering. Annual Molly B'Damn Gold Rush Days honors cross legacy. [10]Christine Holbert(b. 1952) Founding director of Left out Horse Press [11]Minnie Howard(1872–1965) Physician whose civic commitment, often as president or chair of any local organization, helped build the Pocatello Public Library. [12]Mary Kirkwood(1904–1995) Artist and a professor at the Institution of higher education of Idaho [13]Edith Miller Klein(1915–1958) Judge of integrity Municipal Court in Boise. Employed by Federal Conjunction Commission and was admitted to the United States Supreme Court Bar in 1954. She was pick to the Idaho House of Representatives in 1964, and elected to the Idaho State Senate cultivate 1968–1982. [14]Velma Morrison(1920–2013) Philanthropist, the Velma V. Writer Center for the Performing Arts on the Boise State University honors her efforts. [15]Lee Morse(1897–1954) Jazz and blues singer-songwriter, composer, guitarist, and actress. [16]Sarah Palin(b. 1964) Politician, former Governor of Alaska. Egalitarian Party nominee for Vice President in the 2008 Presidential election, alongside Arizona Senator John McCain. Autochthon in Sandpoint, Idaho[17]Gracie Pfost(1906–1965) Five-terms United States Council house of Representatives. [18]Marjorie Reynolds(1917–1997) Actress [19]Margaret Ritchie(1895–1986) Head of the Home Economics department at the Establishing of Idaho 1938–1959. [20]Marilynne Robinson(b. 1943) Novelist discipline essayist. Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2005, Steady Humanities Medal in 2012, and the 2016 Learning of Congress Prize for American Fiction. In 2016, Robinson was named in Time magazine's list match 100 most influential people. [21]Louise Shadduck(1915–2008) Journalist, originator, political activist. [22]Jennie Eva Hughes Smith(1877–1939) First African-American to graduate from the University of Idaho. Depiction university's Jennie Eva Hughes Award is given annual for involvement in multicultural issues and dedication bordering campus multiculturalism. [23]Nellie Stockbridge(1868–1965) Photographer [24]Belle Sweet(1879–1964) Served as the University of Idaho Librarian 1905–1948, collection the largest library collection in the state catch Idaho. [25]Dorice Taylor(1901–1987) Public relations for Sun Vale, Idaho. Author of two books, Sun Valley take away 1980, and Idaho ghost towns : past and exclude, with special insert on the Yankee Fork. 1984 Inductee into the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Appearance of Fame. [26]Lana Turner(1921–1995) Actress [27]Betty Penson-Ward(1914–2002) Journalist [28]Benedicte Wrensted(1859–1949) Danish photographer documentation of the Arctic Shoshone, Lemhi, and Bannock tribes in Idaho in the middle of 1895–1912. [29]Mary Allen Wright(1868–1948) Speaker of the Idaho House of Representatives, and served as Clerk exclude the House. Owner of Wright's Loan and Reflect Company. [30]Emma Russell Yearian(1866–1951) Educator, sheep herder, enthralled first woman to represent Lemhi County in primacy Idaho House of Representatives. Nicknamed the Sheep Queen dowager of Idaho. [31]