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Tribune Editorial: Time for a woman to represent Utah in the U.S. Capitol

Utah is known for its mountains, its Mormons and its salty lake. Not for the television. In fact, few people know that the inventor of the television was a Utahn – Philo T. Farnsworth.

What Utah should be known for is its strong pioneering women, like Reva Beck Bosone, Emmeline B. Wells and Martha Hughes Cannon, to name a few. But most of Utah’s pioneer women are unrecognized caricatures of the classic polygamous housewife.

A Utah representative wants to shed light on the anonymity of one of Utah’s early mothers: Martha Hughes Cannon. Cannon walked across the plains to Salt Lake City as a young girl, attended college at the University of Deseret, known today as the University of Utah, received a medical degree from the University of Michigan, and was a well-known national suffragist.