Isabella Greenway

Isabella Selmes Ferguson Greenway King (born March 22, 1886, Boone County, Kentucky; died December 18, 1953, Tucson, Arizona) is best known as the first U.S. congresswoman in Arizona's history, and as the founder of the Arizona Inn of Tucson. She was also a one-time owner and operator of Los Angeles, Calif.-based Gilpin Air Lines, spoke at the 1932 Democratic National Convention, and was a bridesmaid at the wedding of Eleanor and Franklin D. Roosevelt. [http://www.uapress.arizona.edu/books/bid1555.htm]

Greenway, a Democrat, was elected as Arizona's sole Representative to the 73rd Congress in 1932 to replace resigning Rep. Lewis W. Douglas, and won reelection in 1934, serving in the House from October 3, 1933, to January 3, 1937.

In Phoenix, Greenway Road and several public schools are named for her.

References

“Isabella Selmes Greenway” in Women in Congress, 1917-1990. Prepared under the direction of the Commission on the Bicentenary by the Office of the Historian, U.S. House of Representatives. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1991.