Helen Timmons Henderson [SEP] occupation
Helen Timmons Henderson
Helen Timmons Henderson (May 23, 1877 – July 12, 1925) was a schoolteacher and politician from Virginia. She was the first woman ever to be nominated for the Virginia House of Delegates; with Sarah Lee Fain, in 1923, she was one of the first two women elected to that body, and to the Virginia General Assembly as a whole.
Life and career.
Helen Timmons was born on May 23, 1877 Cass County, Missouri, where her parents were visiting, and
Nellie Nugent Somerville
Eleanor "Nellie" Nugent Somerville (September 25, 1863 – July 28, 1952) was the first woman elected to the Mississippi Legislature. Her daughter, Lucy Somerville Howorth, was soon elected to that body as well, and the two became the second mother-daughter pair elected to a state legislature in the United States, behind only Helen Timmons Henderson and Helen Ruth Henderson of Virginia.
Life and career.
Eleanor Nugent was born in Greenville, Mississippi, into the state's plantation aristocracy