Kate Barnard
American sociologist · United States · On the map · Politicians · Lived 1875 to 1930 · aged 54
Catherine Ann "Kate" Barnard was the first woman to be elected as a state official in Oklahoma, and the eleventh woman to be elected to a statewide public office in the United States, in 1907. All ten prior elected women were elected to Superintendent of Public Instruction in four states.
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She served as the first Oklahoma Commissioner of Charities and Corrections for two four-year terms, the only position that the 1907 Oklahoma Constitution permitted a woman to hold.
