Three women, all Democrats, won political contests against male competition in 1924. Each of these victories was unprecedented. Voters from the Twelfth Congressional District of New Jersey elected Man T. Norton to the House of Representatives, making her the first Democratic woman ever elected to that body and the first woman to represent any state in the East. Two other women became the first women elected to governorships. In a special election held in November Wyoming elected Nellie T. Ross to complete the unexpired term of her husband, William B. Ross, who had been electcd governor in 1922 and died on 2 October 1924. Texas voters elected Miriam A. '"Ma" Ferguson as their governor in 1924. Ferguson's husband, James E. Ferguson, had served as governor of Texas from 1915 until August 1917, when he was impeached and removed from office. Miriam Ferguson campaigned on the commitment to follow...