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Show ANNA HOLDEN Elected 1913 To It was member KING 1915 1912 when Anna H King won the election which of the 1913 to 1915 House of Representatives. She was born Anna married Howard A. Holden King on March 2, October 10, on 1865 in Salt made Lake her City a and 1888. was of the active in one Republican politics and was organizers of the Women's Republican Club of Utah. She served as its president for four years and was also president of the Wasatch Literary Club. Mrs. King was an active member of the Congregational Church in Salt Lake City. She enjoyed writing poetry and had the distinction of having some of it published. Anna While in the a member of legislature she the was chair of the and Public Capitol Committee and Accounts, Elections, Federal Relations and Municipal Corporations Committees. Interested in the status and rights of women, which were far from good at the Census, Claims pension and Joint Guardianship protection in the loss of a voice in the guardianship of their children. time, she authoried the Widows' bills in an attempt to offer them husband and some some In 1941 Howard King died and was buried in Salt Lake City. Shortly Anna Los afterward, Angeles to live with her King moved to daughter, Carol K. Kerslake of Huntington Park, Calif. She remained In there for fourteen years. September of 1953, at the age of eighty-eight, she died in a Los Angeles hospital of causes incident to age. 57 |
