Minnie Fisher Cunningham

The principal orchestrator of the passage of women''s suffrage in Texas, a founder and national officer of the League of Women Voters, the first woman to run for a U.S. Senate seat from Texas, and a candidate for that state''s governor, Minnie Fisher Cunningham was one of the first American women to pursue a career in party politics. Cunningham''s professional life spanned a half century, thus ill...