Frances Matthew Jones Hunt was an American progressive era politician who is best known for being the first woman elected to a seat in the

Arkansas General Assembly The General Assembly of Arkansas is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Arkansas. The legislature is a bicameral body composed of the upper house Arkansas Senate with 35 members, and the lower Arkansas House of Representatives with 1 ...

. In 1922, Hunt was elected to a seat in the

Arkansas House of Representatives The Arkansas House of Representatives is the lower house of the Arkansas General Assembly, the state legislature of the US state of Arkansas. The House has 100 members elected from an equal number of constituencies across the state. Each distr ...

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Members of the Arkansas House of Representatives Women state legislators in Arkansas 20th-century American women politicians 20th-century members of the Arkansas General Assembly Year of death missing {{Arkansas-politician-stub

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