Important voices : North Dakota's women elected state officials share their stories, 1893-2013
Only 17 women have been elected to statewide office in North Dakota in 125 years. Read their stories in this book. Laura Eisenhuth, elected Superintendent of Public Instruction in 1893 (and the first woman in the United States to be elected to statewide office); Agriculture commissioner Sarah Vogel, first woman to serve on the powerful North Dakota industrial Commission and who teamed up with Willie Nelson to provide help to farmer; Superintendent of Public Instruction Minnie Nielson who was not allowed into her office for a week after her inauguration; Senator Heidi Heitkamp, who raised her family while serving as tax commissioner and attorney general, all the time working on important issues for North Dakotans
Print Book, English, 2014
North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies Press, Fargo, ND, 2014