Upcoming EventsMarch is Women's History MonthLillian Exum Clement
1st Woman Elected to NC General Assembly 1921-1923 Lillian Exum Clement (later Lillian Stafford) was not only the first woman to be elected to the NC General Assembly, she was the first woman to be elected to any state legislature in the South. For some context, the 19th Amendment to the Constitution giving women the right to vote occurred in August, 1920.
Ms. Clement was born in Black Mountain, NC. In 1917, she passed the bar exam and became the first women to open her own law practice in North Carolina. She became involved in politics when the Buncombe County Democratic Party asked her to run for a NC House of Representative seat. She won the Democratic Party primary election beating two men. Subsequently, she was elected in a landslide, 10,368 to 41. Sixteen of the 17 bills introduced by Rep. Clement passed including a bill that required private voting booths and a secret ballot. She did not run for re-election and was appointed by the Governor to be the Director of the state hospital at Morganton. |
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