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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Lynn Musslewhite and Suzanne Jones Crawford. One Woman's Political Journey: Kate Barnard and Social Reform, 1875–1930. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. 2003. Pp. xii, 231. $34.95.

This new biography by Lynn Musslewhite and Suzanne Jones Crawford sees Kate Barnard as a key figure in Oklahoma politics during the Progressive era and claims that she was the first woman in the United States to be elected to a state post. Barnard played an important part in securing social justice reform in the state. Her career was not without its setbacks, but this first full-length biography argues that she was one of the most influential women in Oklahoma at the height of her career. Barnard was responsible for securing child labor laws, a compulsory school attendance law, and a juvenile justice system, as well as modernizing the penal structure in the state. She managed to do so by persuading the all-male legislature to do her bidding. After her initial successes, however, Barnard was increasingly thwarted in her reform ambitions. She was not always able to secure the budgets she needed, nor the personnel she wanted, and her position as Commissioner of Charities and Corrections came under threat. Her attempts to use her office to protect Indian property rights were defeated in Oklahoma, and she became progressively more disillusioned with politics.

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