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It was A sinn fein TD Countess markeivic she was elected after the 1916 rising but she refused to take her seat
Edith Cowan, elected to the Western Australian Legislative Assembly in 1921.
On 12 March 1921 Mrs Edith Cowan became the first women to be elected to federal parliament in Australia. She was sixty years old.
1929First woman elected toQueensland Parliament(Irene Longman -Progressive Nationalist:Bulimba).
1929First woman elected toQueensland Parliament(Irene Longman -Progressive Nationalist:Bulimba).
The first woman to be elected to the Parliament of Canada was Agnes McPahil. She stayed in Parliament for 19 years, she was the only woman in the House of Commons, she was one of the famous five, which helped appoint a woman senator, and fought for suffrage for women. Mackenzie King offered her a position in his cabinet to join his political party.
The name of the lady is Edith Cowan - the first woman elected to the Australian parliament.
Ivy Weber is famous because she was the first woman to be elected in a Victorian parliament. This happened in the general elections of 1937.
Shirley Chisholm was the first woman elected to the House of Representatives.
Jeanette Rankin was elected by the state of Montana and was the first woman elected to Congress.
In 1916, Jeannette Rankin, of Montana, was the first woman to be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.