Erasure.

[fleabiscuit]

America’s first female governor served in Oregon three years before women in the state gained the right to vote. But history has largely forgotten her. That wasn’t an accident....

“We live in a world that has long been structured to a certain and significant extent by ideas of white supremacy and patriarchy,” said Oregon Historical Quarterly editor Eliza E. Canty-Jones. “I think that infects a lot of what we know about the past.”...

https://www.opb.org/news/article/carolyn-b-shelton-chamberlain-oregon-governor-history/

[underpants]

1. Carolyn B. Shelton

Very interesting read. Thanks.

[malaise]

2. Thanks for that

Rec

[Cha]

3. Glad this unique story of the first woman Gov,

Carolyn B Shelton, wasn't lost in history.. in progressive Oregon no less.

At 9:15 a.m. on the morning of Saturday, Feb. 27, 1909, Shelton assumed the role of the acting governor — becoming the nation’s first female governor in the process. For a weekend, a woman who couldn’t legally cast a ballot possessed the power to issue pardons, veto bills and sign executive orders.

It still boggles my head that the mindset for so long was women had no right to vote.. same with our African Americans citizens. Those denying must have thought they were really hot shite.

And, Wow!

Take her obituary as an example. Published in the Oregon Statesman on Feb. 4, 1936, it ignores her own political accomplishments in favor of those of her late husband. In another wrinkle to her story, Shelton later married her longtime boss and mentor, George Chamberlain, in 1926 in Norfolk, Virginia, making them the first and only pair of former governors in U.S. history to wed.

What a life she had from her childhood on.. electric bolts out of the blue!

Mahalo, flea, for posting herstory!

[fleabiscuit]

4. You're welcome Cha.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

5. "mindset"

The mindset continues even in little ways. I received a couple of Christmas cards this week with the annoying "Mr. and Mrs. [my name]". My wife has her own name; she consented to adding my last name to it. That form of address reduces her to just a dependent, subordinate honorific.

Ok, rant over.


And, kick.

[Cha]

6. Oh yeah, still in too many minds..

purposely or not.

Misogynists.. not thinking women are quite up to the job like they are.. or worse.

However, a lot of progress between the Governor who couldn't vote, Carolyn B Shelton, in 1909.. to Gov Kate Brown in Oregon 2018!

And, we would have had a woman President, who was the most qualified in 2016, except for too many hatemongering, Lying, outside and inside forces against her.

Thanks for Kicking