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Elizabeth Hughes

Republican

Date Party Office Votes Result
11-05-1918 Republican AD-07 4869 Win
11-02-1920 Republican AD-07 6190 Win
Website: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Hughes_(legislator)
 

Candidate Biography:

Elizabeth Lorentzen Hughes
Born: March 19, 1875
Married: James Boaz Hughes
Died: March 15, 1941 in San Francisco, CA

  • NOTE: One of the first women to serve in the Assembly in 1919.
  • NOTE: One of the first two women to chair a legislative committee. In 1919, Hughes served as chair of the Assembly Education Committee and Eleanor Miller chaired the Assembly Committee on Public Morals (now Assembly Governmental Organization).
  • Buried at Memorial Park Cemetery in Oroville.