100 years of women in WA Legislature
(Images courtesy of Washington State Heritage Center and The Legacy Project) Monday’s start of the 2013 legislative session also marks the centennial of Washington installing the first female legislators. On Jan. 13, 1913, women entered Washington’s Legislature for the first time when Frances C. Axtell (1866-1953) and Nena Jolidon Croake (1865-1934) took the oath of office along with 95 male colleagues in the House of Representatives. The two women…