Helen Ring Robinson | |
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 Helen Ring Robinson circa 1913 | |
| Member of the Colorado Senate from the 1st district | |
| In office January 1, 1913 – January 3, 1917 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Helen Ring 1878 Eastport, Maine, U.S. |
| Died | 1923 (aged 44–45) Denver, Colorado |
| Resting place | Fairmount Cemetery, Denver, Colorado |
| Political party | Democratic Party |
| Spouse | Ewing Robinson (m. February 13, 1902) |
| Parent(s) | Thomas Warren Ring and Mary Margaret (Thompson) Ring |
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Helen Ring Robinson (1878–1923), was an American suffragist, writer, and political office holder. She was the first[1] woman to serve as a state senator in the United States and the first in the Colorado State Senate. She was elected in 1912 and began her service in the 19th Colorado General Assembly, when she was sworn in on January 1, 1913.[2][3][4] She was inducted into the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame in 2014.[5]
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timewas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "Senator Helen Ring Robinson Calls Herself the Housewives' Representative in Colorado". New York Times. November 23, 1913. Retrieved December 10, 2008.
" Every city in every State in the country is in need of motherliness," said Senator Helen Ring Robinson of Colorado before the League for Political Education at the Hudson Theatre yesterday morning in telling her audience that it was the womanly woman who was needed in politics, not a creature recreated in the image of man.
- ^ "Helen Ring Robinson". Swarthmore College. Archived from the original on March 4, 2012. Retrieved December 10, 2008.
- ^ "Helen R. Robinson of Colorado Defends the Suffrage Cause". New York Times. September 22, 1915. Retrieved December 10, 2008.
Senator Helen Ring Robinson of Colorado was in New York City yesterday after having given a week to the suffrage campaign work in the upper part of the State and a week in New Jersey. Senator Robinson says that while she is helping the women here she is also trying to put down the incessant criticism of the suffrage States by Eastern people.
- ^ Colorado Women's Hall of Fame, Helen Ring Robinson