Casper is a city in and the county seat of Natrona County, Wyoming, United States. Casper is the second largest city in the state, according to the 2010 census, with a population of 55,316. Only Cheyenne, the state capital, is larger. Casper is nicknamed "The Oil City" and has a long history of oil boomtown and cowboy culture, dating back to the development of the nearby Salt Creek Oil Field. In 2010, Casper was named the highest-ranked family-friendly small city in the West, and ranked eighth overall in the nation in Forbes magazine's list of "the best small cities to raise a family".
Lynne Ann Cheney is an American author, scholar, and former talk-show host. She is married to the 46th vice president of the United States, Dick Cheney, and served as the second lady of the United States from 2001 to 2009.
Elizabeth Lynne Cheney is an American attorney and politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Wyoming's at-large congressional district since 2017. Cheney is the House Republican Conference Chair, the third-highest position in GOP House leadership. She is the third woman elected to that position after Deborah Pryce and Cathy McMorris Rodgers.
James Parton was an English-born American biographer who wrote books on the lives of Horace Greeley, Aaron Burr, Andrew Jackson, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Voltaire, and the "Eminent Women of the Age".
John J. Hickey was an American politician who served the 24th Governor of Wyoming and Senator as a Democrat before sitting on the Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.
Bryant Butler Brooks was an American businessman, rancher, politician, oilman, banker and published author. He was the seventh governor of Wyoming from January 2, 1905 until January 2, 1911.
John Schiller Wold was an American business executive and Republican politician from Wyoming who served a single term in the United States House of Representatives from 1969 to 1971. He was the first professional geologist to have served in Congress.
The Wyoming Democratic Party is the affiliate of the Democratic Party (DEM) in Wyoming, headquartered in Cheyenne. The party was strong during Wyoming's territorial days, but suffered a decline in its early statehood although it rose to prominence again from the 1930s to the 1950s before suffering another a steep decline and becoming one of the weakest Democratic affiliates.
Lloyd Carpenter Griscom was an American lawyer, diplomat, and newspaper publisher.
John Anthony Barrasso III is an American physician and politician serving as the junior United States Senator from Wyoming. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served in the Wyoming State Senate.
Ernest Morell Blackie was an Anglican bishop in the 20th century.
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) persons in the U.S. state of Wyoming may face some legal challenges not experienced by non-LGBT residents. Same-sex sexual activity has been legal in Wyoming since 1977, and same-sex marriage was legalized in the state in October 2014. Wyoming law does not address discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity, though the cities of Jackson and Laramie have enacted ordinances outlawing such discrimination.
Martha B. Farish Gerry was an American Thoroughbred racehorse owner named an Exemplar of Racing by the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame.
Ida May Hinman (1854–1926) was an American feminist, journalist, suffragette, and temperance activist. She was the author of The Washington sketch book, one of the few Washington, D.C. guidebooks written by a woman at the end of the 19th century.
Therese Alberta Parkinson Jenkins was a suffragist, credited with saving women's suffrage in the State of Wyoming. She was the first woman delegate to any Republican National Convention, the one in Minneapolis in 1892.
LaSalle "Sallie" Corbell Pickett was an American author.
The Midwest Oil Company Hotel, at 136 East 6th Street in Casper, Wyoming, is an historic hotel building which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. It has also served as the Casper Women's Club House. Originally built by the Midwest Oil Company to accommodate workers during the Casper oil boom, it was taken over by Standard Oil Company of Indiana when that company bought Midwest Oil. In the 1930s, in the waning days of oil production in Natrona County, a local women's organization bought the hotel for $8,000 and was renamed the Casper Women's Club House.
Iva Bigelow Weaver was an American soprano singer in oratorios and recitals, clubwoman, and music educator based in Chicago and Milwaukee.
Edness Kimball Wilkins was the first female speaker of the Wyoming House of Representatives.
