Kate Richards O'Hare
1877 - 1948
- Born in Ada
- In 1916 became first woman to run for U.S. senate
- Prominent anti-war activist for the Socialist Party
- Arrested and imprisoned for violating Espionage Act of 1917, pardoned by President Calvin Coolidge
- Crusaded for better prison conditions
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