Kate Barnard

(1875-1930) born in Geneva, Fillmore County. Progressive reformer and politician, labor organizer and state welfare administrator, first woman in the United States voted into statewide elective office by an all-male electorate in 1907. Consult Biographical Dictionary of Social Welfare in America (Greenwood Press, 1986) 56-59 and American National Biography, Vol 2 (1999) 183-184.

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