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Show NELLIE JACK Elected Senate 1957 to 1959 Elected House 1939 to 1949 Elected House 1953 to 1955 Elected House 1967 to 1975 Nobody's life be reduced reveal! to can information they statistics but what a wealth of Nellie is the Dean of Women Legislators having served longer in the legislature than any other woman. Eleven terms in the Houses and one session in the Senate. A total of 24 years. Nellie, clearly a redhead with and forcefully. Senator Jack Hayes, but born a sense of humor, always spoke her mind Nephi, a daughter of Richard and Agnes attended school lin Eureka. She lived her entlre life in the state of Utah. A dedicated Democrat and politician, she was a voting district and legislative district chairperson for many years; a member of the County Executi ve Democratic Committe, and a state vice chair from 1945 to 1947, and a delegate to many national and local conventions. was grew up in and She was elected in 1939 to the legislature for the first time. From then on her west side friends and supporters returned her to office for five terms. In 1952 she was again elected and served in the 1953-55 session. Then she was elected a member of the Utah Senate in 1956 and served the first two years of her term before she resigned to become the Salt Lake County Recorder, where she served from 1959 to 1963. Nellie served on all the important committees of the House. One of her favorite positions was Chair of the T.B. Sanatorium Committee where she worked hard for the building of the T.B. Sanatorium in Ogden, Utah. she was floor Commi t tee. She and those people 1947 the House and in 1949 chair of the for the benefi t of 1 aboring who could not the themselves, help underprivileged, the blind, aged and dependent children. She was sympathetic toward veterans and worked for better schools, better firemen and housing, adequate pensions for widows of Salt Lake teachers' retirement. In Labor leader of sponsored bi 11 s Jack wa's 'president o f, the Women's Democratic Cl ub, the first president of the Utah Order of Women Legislators, member of the Women's Legislative Council, member and defense chair of the Salt Rep. Lake 42 Council of Women; member of the Salt Lake District of the |
