Name: Heritage Night Lecture: A Woman's Place is in the House by Dr. Judy Gaughan ✨
Start: 2026-03-18T18:00:00-06:00
End: 2026-03-18T19:30:00-06:00
Location: 201 W B St, Pueblo, CO, United States, Colorado 81003

$Heritage Night Lecture: A Woman's Place is in the House by Dr. Judy Gaughan \u2728$

Pueblo, CO: Please join us here at the Pueblo County Historical Society & Heritage Museum on March 18, 2026 from 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM for our Heritage Night Lecture with the amazing Dr. Judy Gaughan! This lecture will explore the way that the first women legislators in the country had to negotiate this previously male-gendered space both literally and figuratively. She will then examine both perceptions of women in that space and the way women asserted their right to belong.
On January 2, 1895, for the first time ever, three women entered a state capitol building as legislators. One of these legislators brought along her two daughters and her husband. It was customary for male members to present their wives on the floor of the House but she was stopped at the door by the doorkeeper who said that the members of her family must sit elsewhere. Carrie Clyde Holly “promptly demanded by what right several men were allowed to present their wives on the floor if she could not introduce her husband. The doorkeeper succumbed helplessly,” (Akron Daily Democrat, February 27, 1895) and Carrie Clyde Holly, Frances S. Klock, and Clara Cressingham were sworn in as Representatives in the Colorado General Assembly.
Dr. Judy Gaughan: Judy E. Gaughan is a professor of History at Colorado State University-Pueblo. She earned her PhD in Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology at the University of California at Berkeley. Her first book, Murder Was Not a Crime: Homicide and Power in the Roman Republic, was published by the University of Texas Press. In preparation for celebrating the centennial of women’s suffrage in the nation in 2020, Professor Gaughan discovered that the very county she was living and working in produced one of the first three women ever to serve as a state legislator and she got drawn from ancient Rome into the modern world of late 19th century America. She since taught herself American History, especially the Progressive Era, and discovered how to use archives and is now well engrossed in the manuscript: Surely the World Moves: Carrie Clyde Holly, An American First.