November 1924
Harriet B. Jones is elected to the West Virginia House of Delegates
Harriet B. Jones, who had grown up in Terra Alta, was elected as a Republican to represent Marshall County in the West Virginia House of Delegates. She was one of two women elected to the House that November and later won reelection to a second term.
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West Virginia Legislature, Chronology of Women in the West Virginia Legislature (revised April 2025), pp. 3 and 43; West Virginia and Regional History Center, “Dr. Harriet B. Jones, West Virginia Physician, Suffragist, and Activist”
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