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Show 28 ELIZABETH ANN PUGSLEY HAYWARD Elected House 1915 to 1919 Elected Senate 1919 to 1923 Elizabeth Philip was born on a snowy December 23, and Martha Roach Pugsley. 1854 of pioneer parents, was the eldest girl of a large family, and had to help in the rearing of her siblings. When her father went to night school to help him learn bookkeeping, she went with him, as schooling was not something all the kids got to do. She She also male and learned dressmaking and made clothes female. for her family both She enjoyed socials, dances and plays at Social Hall where she met They Henry Hayward whom she married on her twenty first birthday. moved into a two room adobe house built by Henry. In She lost two children and a brother to the diphtheria epidemic. the next 20 years, seven more children were born. Scarlet fever and diphtheria took all but three. In 1870 Utah granted women the right to vote, but on March 3,1887, Intended as the Edmund-Tucker law disfranchised the women of Utah. a weapon against pol ygamy, it denied the right to all women. Elizabeth vowed to do something about getting the vote back. She became the vice president of the Woman Suffrage Association, a position she held for 6 years. During a western states conference, Susan B. Anthony and Anna Shaw attended. The Governor promised that "when the new state constitution goes contain a womans suffrage clause." to the voters, it will Ln t r oduced a resol uti on endorsing national of Representatives. In 1919, as a state she introduced the resolution senator, ratifying the National She also had the honor of being the first woman to Suffrage Act. over the Senate the first in any state. and preside probably In 1915, Elizabeth suffrage in the Utah House After the death of so many of her children, work beside her church work, for which she she did public devoted. service was She was resident of the Mothers Club at Washington School, and was member of the where she held many Women's Democratic CI ub offices. She attended the National Democratic Convention in Denver in 1908 and in st. Louis in 1916. She served as Democratic National Committeewoman for Utah from 1916 to 1920, and was elected to the House of Representatives in 1915 and 1917, and to the Senate in 1919. a |
