Career
Endorsed by the Nevada State Journal, she was the first woman elected to the Nevada Legislature (R-Washoe). When the legislature met in special session on February 7, 1919 to ratify the Federal Suffrage Amendment, it was Hurst, the assemblywoman from Reno, who presented the resolution. She had a further distinction of being the first woman to preside over a state Legislature during the ratification of the Federal Suffrage Amendment.
At the time, she was not only Nevada"s first assemblywoman but also its only one, having been picked by the Women Citizens" Club of Reno, to bring women into the legislature.
Born in Iowa in 1857, Hurst died in Pasadena, California in 1952.
