- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Viola Ross Napier (1881-1962)
- Creator:
- Carpenter, Cathy
- Date of Original:
- 2006-12-17
- Subject:
- Lawyers--Georgia--Macon
Women lawyers--Georgia--Macon
Legislators--Georgia
Municipal officials and employees--Georgia--Macon
Town clerks--Georgia--Macon
Women legislators--Georgia--Macon
Napier, Viola Ross, 1881-1962 - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Bibb County, Macon, 32.84069, -83.6324
- Medium:
- articles
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
- Description:
- Encyclopedia article about Viola Ross Napier. Viola Ross Napier was elected to Georgia's House of Representatives in 1922, only two years after the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which grants women the right to vote. Elected as a representative from Bibb County, Napier became one of the first two women to hold elected office in the state. (Bessie Kempton, of Fulton County, was elected at the same time.) During her two terms, the widowed mother of four sponsored legislation to improve children's rights and to increase protection for the blind and handicapped.
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- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/viola-ross-napier-1881-1962/
- Language:
- eng
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- Cite as: "ARTICLE TITLE," New Georgia Encyclopedia. Retrieved [date]: http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org.
- Original Collection:
- Forms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.
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- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
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