29-01-2018 22:20 via deseretnews.com

Senate OKs replacing TV inventor statue with Martha Cannon statue

SALT LAKE CITY — A resolution passed the Senate Monday calling for Utah's statue of TV inventor Philo T. Farnsworth to be replaced in the U.S. Capitol by Martha Hughes Cannon, the first woman in the country to serve as a state legislator.SCR1, sponsored by Sen. Todd Weiler, R-Woods Cross, passed 21-7 and now goes to the House. It is intended to put Utah, the first state to give women the right to vote, at the center of the 2020 celebration of the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage."Hono
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