Ella J. Knowles Haskell

Northwood, New Hampshire, Bates College, Lewiston, Maine, Montana Territory
Herausgegeben:Cristóbal, Barnabas

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Ella J. Knowles Haskell (1860-1911) was the first female lawyer in Montana and the first female candidate for state attorney general in the United States. Ella Knowles was born in Northwood, New Hampshire. In 1884 she graduated with honors from Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, one of the few co-educational colleges in the Northeast at that time. She began to read the law in New Hampshire, but then moved to the Montana Territory to improve her health. In Montana, Knowles successfully lobbied the legislature to permit women to be allowed to practice law, and she was admitted to the bar in 1888 after reading law in the Helena office of Joseph Kinsley. In 1889 Knowles was the first woman allowed to practice law in Montana and then she became a partner with Kinsley. She also became the state's first woman notary public. In 1892, 22 years before Montana womenreceived the right to vote, Knowles ran for state Attorney General after being nominated by the Populist Party, becoming the first woman in the nation to run for that office.

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• Verlag: Alphascript Publishing / Cede Publishing
• Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 132
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9786138012825
• ISBN-10: 6138012828
• Artikelnr.: 34497469