| Statue of Martha Hughes Cannon | |
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| Artist | Laura Lee Stay Bradshaw |
| Subject | Martha Hughes Cannon |
| Location | Utah State Capitol, Salt Lake City |
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A statue of Martha Hughes Cannon by Laura Lee Stay Bradshaw is installed outside the Utah State Capitol in Salt Lake City, in the U.S. state of Utah. [1]
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Martha Maria "Mattie" Hughes Cannon was a Utah State Senator, physician, Utah women's rights advocate, suffragist, polygamous wife, and a Welsh-born immigrant to the United States. Her family immigrated to the United States as converts to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and traveled West to settle in Utah territory with other Saints. She started working at the age of fourteen. At sixteen she enrolled in the University of Deseret, now called the University of Utah, receiving a Bachelors in Chemistry. From there she attended the University of Michigan and received her MD. She became the fourth of six wives in a polygamous marriage to Angus M. Cannon, a prominent Latter-day Saint leader during the anti-polygamy crusade. Cannon exiled herself to Europe so she wouldn't have to testify against her husband. Upon returning to Utah, Cannon worked as a doctor and fought for women's rights. She helped put women enfranchisement into Utah's constitution when it was granted statehood in 1896. On November 3, 1896 Cannon became the first female State Senator elected in the United States, defeating her own husband, who was also on the ballot. Martha Hughes Cannon was the author of Utah sanitation laws and was a founder and member of Utah's first State Board of Health.
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Joshua Hughes Paul was a Mormon university president, newspaper editor and Latter-Day Saints missionary. Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, to Mormon pioneer James Patten Paul and Elizabeth Evans, the stepfather and mother of Martha Hughes Cannon, JH Paul as a boy herded cows for Mormon President Brigham Young. After learning carpentry from his father, he worked at the Salt Lake Brewery before entering the Latter-day Saints University in the same city, but, as no degrees were awarded at the former at that time, he had to continue his studies at Illinois Wesleyan University, where he graduated in 1905.
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Senator Cannon may refer to:
Ben Hammond is an American sculptor and painter. His sculpture of Martha Hughes Cannon will represent Utah in the National Statuary Hall Collection in the United States Capitol. The 7 foot, 6 inch statue of Cannon will be molded from bronze and will replace a statue of Philo T. Farnsworth.
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