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Women's monument planned for Ohio Statehouse grounds receives anonymous $1 million donation
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The organization spearheading installation of a monument to women's suffrage at the Ohio Statehouse has received a $1 million contribution toward the project from an anonymous donor, the group announced Monday. Charles Moses, who chairs the Capitol Square...
Ohio's first female House Speaker Jo Ann Davidson remembered as a trailblazer and legend
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The late Jo Ann Davidson, Ohio’s first and only female House speaker, was remembered during a Statehouse memorial service Thursday for blazing trails for women with grit, grace and a guiding spirit. Dozens of the Republican women she had mentored wore red in her honor,...
Ohio's first female House speaker, Republican Jo Ann Davidson, champion of GOP women, has died at 97
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Jo Ann Davidson, Ohio's first woman House speaker and an advocate for putting effective Republican women in office, died Friday. She was 97. Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, a long-time friend, announced Davidson's death in a statement, calling her “a model...
