OCT 4 1890

ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY: October 04, 1890 Gladys Pyle, first Republican Woman Elected to the U.S. Senate Gladys Pyle, born in South Dakota, October 4th 1890. After college, she taught at various high schools. Her father was a Republican state attorney general, her mother a prominent suffragist. Pyle became South Dakota’s first woman state representative in 1923 and first woman secretary of state in 1927. Next, a Republican governor named her to the securities commission. November 1938, she won a U.S. Senate vacancy, serving two months. Remaining years focused on the insurance business. https://rumble.com/v3qk92a-oscar-gifford-south-dakotas-first-congressional-delegate.html