Women in Kansas History

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  • Adair, Florella
  • Anthony, Susan B.
  • Baker, Nancy Landon Kassebaum
  • Barnes, Debra
  • Beech, Olive Ann
  • Beech, Olive Ann
  • Bender, Kate
  • Bickerdyke, Mary
  • Brooks, Gwendolyn
  • Brooks, Gwendolyn
  • Brooks, Louise
  • Brown, Esther
  • Chase, Mabel
  • Cuevas, Teresa
  • Custer, Elizabeth
  • Deuell, Peggy Hull
  • Diggs, Annie
  • Diggs, Annie
  • Earhart, Amelia
  • Earhart, Amelia
  • Earhart, Amelia
  • Farnsworth, Martha
  • Finney, Joan
  • Granddaughters of White Plume
  • Gray, Georgia Neese Clark
  • Gray, Georgia Neese Clark
  • Grinstead, Minnie
  • Grinter, Annie
  • Grisnik, Marijana
  • Haldeman-Julis, Marcet
  • Hatke, Mary Chaney
  • Holt, Nora
  • Jessye, Eva
  • Jessye, Eva
  • Jessye, Eva
  • Johnson, Osa
  • Johnston, Lucy Browne
  • Layton, Elizabeth
  • Lease, Mary Elizabeth
  • Longren, Dolly
  • Lovejoy, Julia Louisa
  • Lytle, Lutie
  • Lytle, Lutie
  • McCarter, Margaret
  • McCarthy, Kathryn O'Loughlin
  • McDaniel, Hattie
  • McDaniel, Hattie
  • Magoffin, Susan Shelby
  • Monroe, Lilla Day
  • Nation, Carry
  • Nation, Carry
  • Clarina NicholsNichols, Clarina
  • Paddleford, Clementine
  • Pitt, Nancy Louise
  • Robinson, Sara
  • Salter, Susanna
  • Salter, Susanna
  • Stinson, Julia
  • Stover, Clara
  • Taylor, Lucy Hobbs
  • Taylor, Lucy Hobbs
  • Todd, Lucinda
  • Vance, Vivian
  • Wilder, Laura Ingalls
  • Williams, Mamie
  • Woman's Kansas Day Club
  • Women in Kansas Territory
  • Women's Basketball
  • Woodard, Lynette
  • Wooster, Lorraine

    • Other women in Kansas history.

    Alley, Kirstie, 1951, Wichita, television and film actress

    Bryant, Deborah , 1947, Overland Park, Miss America 1966

    Burns, Karla , Wichita, Broadway actress

    Cline, Nellie, Larned, first woman lawyer to appear before the U.S. Supreme Court

    Greene, Zula Bennington "Peggy" , 1895 - 1988, Topeka, author and columnist

    Harlow, Jean, Seneca, film actress, originally named Harlean Carpentier

    Kersting, Kathleen, 1908 - 1956, Wichita, opera singer

    Lair, Mary Alice, Piqua, first woman to become vice-chairman of the state Republican committee

    McCarty, Kelli, 1969, Liberal, Miss U.S.A. 1991

    McFarland, Kay, 1935, Topeka, first woman in Kansas to serve as a district judge and as state supreme court justice

    Miles, Vera, 1929, Wichita, television and Broadway actress

    Pitts, ZaSu, 1894 - 1963, Parsons, film and television actress

    Schreffler, Marilyn,1945 - 1988, Topeka, voice of Olive Oyl in the Popeye cartoon series

    Smith, Marilyn, Topeka, numerous career victories on the LPGA circuit, founder and charter member of the women's golf organization

    Stiles, Jackie, Claflin, basketball player

    Stone, Dee Wallace, Kansas City, television and film actress

    Talley, Marion, Colby, opera singer

    Wright, Chely, 1970, Wellsville, singer
     
     
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