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Catherine Ann (Kate) Barnard

Logan County
Location: at Second Street and Oklahoma Avenue in Guthrie
Coordinates: 35.878118, -97.427770
Material: Aluminum
Sponsor(s): Oklahoma Historical Society
Topics: Civil Rights; Early Statehood, 1907–1941; Government

Kate Barnard was the only woman invited to address the Oklahoma Constitutional Convention. “Kate’s planks” prohibited child labor, enacted a compulsory education law, and created the office of Commissioner of Charities and Corrections, to which she was elected in November 1907. She was the first woman in Oklahoma elected to state office.

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