Title Info: Women in the Washington State Legislature, Oral History Project, 1980-1983

These records include 38 oral histories of women in the Washington State Legislature conducted by the project’s director, Kathryn Hinsch, between 1980 and 1983.

Interviews include State Representatives Mary Kay Becker (State Representative, 1975-1983), Jeanette Berleen Burrage (State Representative, 1981-1983), Joanne Brekke (State Representative, 1978-1993), Nancy Buffington (State Senator, 1974-1978), Ellen Craswell (State Representative, 1977-1981; State Senator, 1981-1993), Kathryn Epton (State Representative, 1957-1963, 1965-1967), Phyllis Erickson (State Representative 1972-1981) , Helen Fancher (1976-1983), Mary Farquharson (State Senator, 1935-1943), Lady Willie Forbus (State Senator, 1943-1947), Shirley Galloway (State Senator, 1996; State Representative, 1979-1985), Marian Gleason (State Representative, 1957-1965), Susan Gould (State Senator, 1975-1983), Barbara Granlund (State Representative, 1979-1983; State Senator, 1983-1985), Audrey Gruger (State Representative 1976-1982), Shirley Hankins (State Senator, 1981-1990; State Representative, 1995-2009), Julia Butler Hansen (State Representative, 1939-1960), Emma Taylor Harman (State Representative, 1941-1945), Joan Houchen (State Representative 1979-1983), Margaret Hurley (State Representative, 1953-1979; State Senator, 1979-1985), Doris Johnson (State Representative 1965-1969, 1971-1975), Matilda Jones (State Representative, 1949-1953, 1955-1957), Eleanor Lee (State Representative, 1975-1977; State Senator, 1977-1991), Margaret Leonard (State Representative 1981-1983), Mary Stuart Lux (State Representative 1965-1969), Mildred Henry (State Representative, 1957-1965), Mary Ellen McCaffree (State Representative 1962-1970), Francis North (State Representative, 1969-1975; State Senator, 1975-1979), Blanche Pennick (State Representative, 1945-1947), Nina Rinehart (State Representative, 1979-1983; State Senator, 1983-1996), Nancy Rust (State Representative 1981-1987), Karen Schmidt (State Representative 1981-1999), Marion Sherman (State Representative ), Helen Sommers (State Representative 1973-2009), Lois Stratton (State Representative, 1979-1985; State Senator, 1985-1993), Frances Swayze (State Representative, 1953-1965), Delores Teutsch (State Representative 1979-1983), and Shirley Winsley (State Representative, 1977-1983, 1985-1992; State Senator, 1992-2004).