Jackson County IA Archives Biographies.....Campbell Pendray, Carolyn 1881 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ia/iafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Debbie Clough Gerischer Bare67deb@aol.com March 29, 2005, 1:43 pm Author: IOWA OFFICIAL REGISTER IOWA OFFICIAL REGISTER 1933-1934 BIOGRAPHIES STATE SENATORS CAROLYN CAMPBELL PENDRAY, MAQUOKETA. - Senator from the twenty-third district, Jackson county, was born at Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, in 1881, the daughter of the late Thomas Franklin Campbell and Harriett Emily Dutton. Received her early education in the public schools of Mt. Pleasant. Her professional record of twenty years teaching includes seven years as county superintendent of schools of Henry county and the teaching of methods in summer school sessions at Iowa Wesleyan College. She is the wife of W. J. Pendray, a merchant of Maquoketa, to whom she was married in 1920. An active worker in the democratic party, for years a member of the stare central committee serving as chairwoman in the second congressional district. A member of the Congregational church, P. E. O. Society, Outlook Study Club, B. & P. W. League. She served as representative in forty-third and forty-fourth general assemblies. First woman to be elected to the Iowa legislature, and was elected senator in 1932. A democrat. This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/iafiles/ File size: 1.6 Kb