Utah leaders unveil statue of Martha Hughes Cannon, nation’s first female state senator

Martha Hughes Cannon will one day take her place in Washington, D.C., but for now, she stands in the state Capitol.On Monday, Utah leaders removed a purple, white and yellow cloth — representing the colors of suffrage — to unveil a statue of Cannon, the nation’s first female state senator, who was elected in 1896. More than a century later, some of her descendants were there to see it.Cannon’s oldest daughter, Elizabeth, “spent years trying to promote her mother and