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This undated photograph, probably obtained from the governor’s office by the Vermont Historical Society, shows Governor Kunin as she appeared during her tenure as governor.

Madeleine Kunin signed many proclamations in the governor’s ceremonial office in the State House during her six years in office. Here she is shown signing the proclamation to create Women’s History Month, March 1988. Also in the photograph are, left…

Madeleine Kunin appointed Denise Johnson, the first woman to sit on the Vermont Supreme Court, in 1990. With Kunin and Johnson is outgoing justice Louis Peck, whose seat Johnson took.

Mary Jean Simpson was born in East Craftsbury, Vermont and attended Craftsbury Academy, Wheaton Seminary in Massachusetts, and St. Johnsbury Academy from which she graduated in 1908. She went on to the University of Vermont, but transferred to Mount…

Edna Louise Beard was the first Vermont woman to be elected to the Vermont House of Representatives and to the Vermont Senate. Three months after the 19th Amendment was passed in 1920 giving women suffrage, Beard took office as Representative from…

Desk #145 from the Vermont State House, now part of the collections of the Vermont Historical Society, was used by both Edna Beard and Consuelo Northrop Bailey.

Beard chose the desk at random, at the beginning of her first term as the first woman…

Governor Madeleine Kunin campaigning for Democratic candidates in Vermont at the end of her last term as governor.

Governor Madeleine Kunin poses for a photograph in the governor's ceremonial office in the Vermont State House. The ceremonial office is distinct from the governor's working office (which is located next door, in the Pavilion Building) and is used…

By the time that Madeleine Kunin ran for her third term as governor, opposition to her progressive policies were growing. This bumper sticker reflected the dissatisfaction of some voters, although she won handily with 55% of the vote, the largest…

Bumper sticker created by a private enterprise for Madeleine Kunin's 1984 gubernatorial campaign. Although the sticker uses her trademark exclamation point, the "for VT" message and two lines were non-standard.

Photograph of Madeleine Kunin during a press conference announcing her candidacy for a second term as Lieutenant Governor

Consuelo Northrop Bailey was born on the Northrop family farm in Fairfield in 1899. She attended high school in St. Albans and graduated from the University of Vermont in 1921. Bailey later entered Boston University Law School, graduating in…