25-01-2018 13:00 via deseretnews.com

Utah considers placing female statue in nation's Capitol. Here's why that matters now

SALT LAKE CITY — Utah is famous for giving women the vote decades before other states, but fewer people know Utah also elected the first female to a state senate, clear back in 1895.
Now there's a push on Utah's Capitol Hill to send that same woman — Dr. Martha Hughes Cannon, who was also a physician — to Washington to represent the state in The National Statuary Hall Collection in the U.S. Capitol.
The campaign comes as the nation grapples with what statues and monuments mean
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