Carolyn Pendray

PENDRAY

Posted By: Anne Hermann (email)
Date: 8/9/2009 at 09:38:16

IOWA OFFICIAL REGISTER 1933-1934
BIOGRAPHIES OF 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 State 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.