Great Plains Studies, Center for
Date of this Version
2004
Abstract
Kate Barnard was elected Oklahoma's first commissioner of charities and corrections in 1907. The first woman in the country elected to a major statewide office, she remains Oklahoma's most famous woman politician. Lynn Musslewhite and Suzanne Jones Crawford have written a definitive biography of this western progressive and her reform efforts.
Comments
Published in Great Plains Quarterly 24:3 (Summer 2004). Copyright © 2004 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.