Minnie Fisher Cunningham: A Suffragist's Life in Politics

by Harold L. Smith and Judith N. McArthur

Book Overview

The principal orchestrator of the passage of women's suffrage in Texas, a founder and national officer of the League of Women Voters, the first woman to run for a U.S. Senate seat from Texas, and a candidate for that state's governor, Minnie Fisher Cunningham was one of the first American women to pursue a career in party politics. Cunningham's professional life spanned a half century, thus illuminating our understanding of women in public life between...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195122151
• ISBN13: 9780195122152
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.5"