Effiegene Locke Wingo

Effiegene Locke Wingo (April 13, 1883 - September 19, 1962) was a U.S. Representative from Arkansas, wife of Otis Theodore Wingo and great-great-great-granddaughter of Matthew Locke.

Born in Lockesburg, Arkansas, Wingo attended public and private schools and Union Female College, Oxford, Mississippi.She was graduated from Maddox Seminary, Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1901.She moved to Texarkana, Arkansas, in 1895 and to De Queen, Arkansas, in 1897.

Wingo was elected as a Democrat on November 4, 1930, to the Seventy-first Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of her husband, Otis Theodore Wingo, and on the same day was elected to the Seventy-second Congress and served from November 4, 1930, to March 3, 1933. She was not a candidate for renomination in 1932. Co-founder in 1934 of National Institute of Public Affairs, Washington, D.C.She engaged in educational and research work.She was a resident of De Queen, Arkansas.She died September 19, 1962, in Burlington, Ontario, Canada, while visiting her son.She was interred in Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.

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